20世纪后期的全球化和信息化创造了以特大城市(Megacities)为中心的全球城市网络,城市不但没有因为信息技术的传播而废弃,相反在全球经济中集中了指挥功能,纽约、伦敦、东京就是公认的全球城市(Global Cities)中心,相关研究形成了经典的理论和学术影响力(Hall,Friedman,Sassen,Castells等)。在20世纪70～80年代的新自由主义思潮影响下,西方兴起了新公共管理运动,推行权力下放和私有化发展,为严峻的经济衰退松绑,放松了规划管制和战略制订,大部分时候“城市设计受到严重的冷遇”1。进入20世纪90年代以后,全球城市面临着经济全球化和亚太巨型城市快速崛起的外部环境,同时也面临着更为巨大的社会分异、贫富差距扩大、工业外迁、环境污染、地区衰退和绅士化运动并存,无 Globalization and informationization in the late twentieth century created a global network of cities centered around megacities that not only were not abandoned by the spread of information technology but rather dominated the command function in the global economy. New York, London, Tokyo It is recognized as the center of Global Cities and has led to the development of classical theoretical and academic influence (Hall, Friedman, Sassen, Castells, etc.). Under the influence of neo-liberalism from the 1970s to the 1980s, the Western countries started a new public administration movement, promoted the development of decentralization and privatization, relaxed the severe economic recession, relaxed the planning control and strategic formulation, and most of the time “Urban design has been severely depressed” 1. Since the 1990s, global cities are facing the external environment of economic globalization and the rapid rise of megacities in the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, they are facing even greater social differentiation, widening gap between rich and poor, industrial relocation, environmental pollution and regional recession And gentleman’s movement co-exist, without