New Viewpoint of City Planning in the Period of Social Transformation in China:Harmonious City Planning

The social transformation in China is faced with the period of sharp contradictions.For this reason,the Party Central Committee and the State Council raise timely the strategic plan of build China into a harmonious socialist society.When the urbanization is forging rapidly ahead and Urban Society is facing with in China,building "Harmonious Society" naturally involves the matters of building harmonious city and seeking for planning tactics of which.The social background for raising the "Harmonious City"is preliminarily discussed,including the connotations and the three signs of "Harmonious city".In view of three signs,the Harmonious City planning tactics of acquiring new planning criterion is emphatically pointed out for meeting the needs of different mass organizations,launching urban culture planning,and reforming the system of city planning and management.