中美高校城市规划教育比较研究

Comparative study for urban planning education in Chinese and American universities

中国城市的建设与发展正逐步进入深层次优化发展阶段,专业的规划人才是城市发展的关键。如何培养把握城市发展规律的专业人才,是开展城市规划教育的高校都应深思的问题。美国高校的规划教育起步较早,发展也更为系统和完善。因此,文章从现代城市规划教育发展历程、政府和行业对规划教育的影响、规划院系的发展、教学的内容与模式等方面,对中美高校城市规划教育进行了比较研究,理清了当下中美高校城市规划教育的差异,总结了美国高校规划教育发展过程中值得借鉴的经验,以及中国规划教育未来可能的改革方向,以期对中国高校城市规划教育的改革与提升有所启示。

Chinese urban construction and development are gradually entering the development stage of deeplevel optimization, and professional planners are the key to the development of cities. How to cultivate professionals who can grasp the law of urban development is a problem which should be pondered over by the universities which provide urban planning education. While in America, urban planning education started earlier, and its development is more systematic and more perfect. Therefore, this paper makes a comparative study of urban planning education in Chinese and American universities from the aspects of the development process of modern urban planning education, the influence of the government and the industry on urban planning education, the development of planning departments, the teaching contents and models and so on, clarifies the gap of urban planning education between Chinese and American universities at present, and puts forward the experience and lessons which are worth referring from the development process of urban planning education in America, as well as the possible development direction of Chinese urban planning education in the future, to provide reference and inspiration for the reform and upgrading of urban planning education in Chinese universities.