Evolution And Transformation Of Compiling Methods In Comprehensive Planning

The publication of the new edition of The Formulation Methods for Urban Planning (hereinafter referred to as Methods) provided a opportunity to study the compiling methods of comprehensive planning. From the old Methods to the new , the compiling methods "why change", "how changed" and "changed, but how" is the aim of the study, literature Analysis, comparative study, comprehensive demonstration and logical reasoning are the research methods, and the system, the organization, the technique route and the measures of compiling methods are the research contents. The conclusion includes: "short-term and long-term games" is the characteristic of the changing process, the new Methods overlooks the long-term plan and strategic plan while values the immediate plan that we called "seeking short-term and abandoning long-term" which will work out parts of the problems in the old system, and the comprehensive planning shall "give attention to both the short-term and long-term". The analysis from practical viewpoint tells the change of the organization have a pertinence, but the related terms of the Methods should be much better understood; the analysis from decision theory viewpoint tells the decision-makers has multiplied and this change fits general decision theory as a whole and urban planning decision theory in detail; the analysis from the background viewpoint tells the new methods have different from that in developed western countries worth learning, but the new methods conform to our state's actual conditions. The urgent task our country faced that ecology resources conservation and shorten the gap between urban and rural areas, the rise of non-urban development land planning, and the comprehensive planning should function the urban-rural balance development planning have caused the technique route changed from the "Figure-Ground" to "Ground-Figure", and this adds a controlling way of thinking which is one of the traditional concept in urban planning and was overlooked in the past and leads the comprehensive planning return to the basic goal. "The pure technology" method has dominated the old compiling methods, while the new Methods intend to set a tune that "the social technology" methods shall be widespread used, the relation between "the pure technology" and "the social technology" methods concerned the deviating and integrating of the instrumental and value rationality, "the pure technology" methods are the supplementary means in comprehensive planning and "the social technology" methods-dominated technology system is really needed. In brief, the background and self-logic impels the development of compiling methods, the evolution and the transformation are the form of change, the appropriate seasonable action is the overall appraisal to the change.