Research On American Modern Urban Design Operation

Urban design operation is an important part faced by long-term urban design projects during practice. From the perspective of methodology, a system about American modern urban design operation is established made up of operation medium, process, organization and motivation, which means to acquire technical convert from urban design decisions to architect design plans by operation medium and process, and to acquire social equity by operation organization and motivation. In fact, the formation about such American urban design operation system is not at random, but decided by natural demand of the state government, economy and social structures under the background of capitalism and market economy, as well as other forces such as trend of thoughts, professional education and etc. In the end, through comparison between America and China, deficiencies about urban design operation in our country today are analyzed and some considerations are given for its future development basing on Chinese situation.