城市规划是一门实践性学科并具有经验科学特征,对规划活动进行回顾与反思,总结实践经验,是提高规划工作自身认识水平的内在需要。城市的建设与发展是一个长期的过程,对城市规划有关问题及科学规律的认识,需要立足于较长的时间跨度,在大历史中把握大趋势。城市规划具有突出的综合陛、复杂性和矛盾性,历史分析作为一种统筹各类复杂关系的综合方法,正是破解城市规划复杂系统难题的重要途径。正因如此,城市规划历史与理论研究的重要性逐渐被业界所认知。与当前规划工作联系最为紧密的新 Urban planning is a practical discipline and has the characteristics of empirical science. Reviewing and reflecting on the planning activities and summarizing the practical experience are the intrinsic needs of improving the level of the planning work itself. The construction and development of a city is a long-term process. Understanding of issues related to urban planning and scientific laws needs to be based on a longer time span and grasp the general trend in the history. Urban planning has outstanding comprehensiveness, complexity and contradiction. Historical analysis, as an integrated method to co-ordinate all kinds of complex relations, is an important way to solve the complicated system problems of urban planning. Because of this, the importance of urban planning history and theoretical research is gradually recognized by the industry. With the current planning work most closely linked to the new