Urban planning is a kind of policy and technical plan about the city. It discusses important urban issues, such as land use, protection, environmental development, public welfare, urban space design, and management and utilization strategies of urban facilities such as air, water, transportation, communication, etc. Compared with the abstractness and data of urban planning, urban design is more specific and graphical; Since the middle of the 20th century, urban design in practice is mostly to provide guidance and reference framework for landscape design or architectural design, so it is different from specific landscape design or architectural design.
Urban design pays more attention to the image, scale, space, and contour of the city, and is more related to architecture. The employment prospects of urban design after studying abroad are mainly engaged in urban and regional planning, design and management, formulation and research of relevant policies and regulations, business consulting, real estate planning and development in government or enterprise departments. Domestic design companies are generally divided into architectural design companies and urban planning institutes. For general construction companies, it will be more advantageous if they have urban design and architectural design study abroad backgrounds.
History of Chinese and foreign urban construction, preliminary urban planning, urban planning and design, urban master planning, urban detailed planning, urban design, computer-aided mapping, urban ecology, urban geography, policy analysis, urban economics, sociology, etc.
Urban design, that is, design city, usually refers to the design work with the city as the research object in the architecture field. It is a complex comprehensive interdisciplinary discipline between urban planning, landscape architecture and architectural design. It is a subordinate refinement of urban planning and a superior macro control of architectural design. Its main focus is urban public space, and focuses on people's experience and feelings. "People oriented" is the core idea of urban design.
