A Fresh Understanding of Cities and Their Planning

In city planning,only by strengthening the research on basic theory can we haveclear picture of the nature of various problems of the existing society.In order to have a betterunderstanding of the goal of our planning,the author tries to make a reassessment of some im-portant conceptions such as cities,the relationship between cities and countryside,city planningand so on,by analysing the social structure,and hopes his analysis will evoke the conceptionalchange of the planners.