一个关于中国规划的故事——评《为增长而规划:中国城市与区域规划》

A Story About Planning in China: A Book Review of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China

吴缚龙教授的新作《为增长而规划:中国城市与区域规划》的出版是近年中西方规划界的一大盛事。该书从中西对比的视角入手,详述了中国城市规划的独特性,为中外学者提供了认识中国城市规划的全新视角。在这本颇具张力的大作中,吴教授对中国城市规划的历史演变过程进行系统研究,论述了中国城市规划所特有的"服务于增长"这一核心观点。吴教授总结性地指出,中国城市规划体系的形成建立在自身特殊的历史延续性之上,特别是建立在以城市"增长机器"为载体的特殊政治和制度基础之上,中国规划是学习型的规划、包容性的规划、也是具有适应性的规划,其本质是"服务于增长的规划"。

The new book of Professor Wu Fulong, Planning for Growth： Urban and Regional Planning in China, interrogating the unique characteristics of China＇s urban and regional planning, as well as the differences between China and the West, provides a fresh, inspiring and convincing perspective for both Chinese and foreign readerships to understand Chinese planning. The book provides a comprehensive review of the history of urban planning evolution in China, across the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, to present. The focal point of the book, planning for growth, has been carefully explored. It highlights that the formation of the urban planning system of China is built on China＇s specific historical contexts, especially upon the specific political and institutional scaffold of China. In this vein, the book contributes to the growing literature on urban growth and planning of the ＇worlding＇ Global South, it also reshapes our understandings of dynamic planetary urbanization in the earlier 21 st century.