PREFACEINTRODUCTION: ESSENCE AND INHERITANCE: TRADITIONAL CHINESE THOUGHTS ON URBAN DESIGNPART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND SYMBIOSIS: SEVEN STAGES AND THREE CONTROVERSIES1. Infiltration of Early Western Design Ideas (Prelude before 1949)2. Soviet Model, Urban Planning and Design (1949-1950s)3. Dilemmas Under Political Movements (late 1950s-1970s)4. Introduction and Exploration of Modern Urban Design in Europe and America (late 1970s-1980s)5. The Rise of Localization Practice, Theory, and Method (1990s)6. The Practice of Prosperity and its Institutionalization and Systematization (2000s)7. New Situation of Urban Design in the New Era (since 2010s)8. Three Controversies of Contemporary Urban Design in ChinaPART TWO: CONSENSUS AND CONTENTION: FOUR THOUGHTS9. Physical Design10. Design Synthesis11. Design Control12. Policy DesignAPPENDIX 1 DATA VISUALIZATION OF RELATED PAPERS (1983-2014)APPENDIX 2 STATISTICAL TABLE OF RELATED WORKS (1949-2015)APPENDIX 3 STATISTICAL TABLE OF RELATED TRANSLATIONS (1949-2014)APPENDIX 4 ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES FOR URBAN DESIGN (2017)