本文基本上沿用著名规划思想家Lewis. Mumford著述规划思想的体系,把十六世纪以来出现的规划思想归结为六种类型:形式规划、实用规划、浪漫规划、乌托邦规划、技术规划和有机规划;并进行了简要的评价。

In city and region planning, the process of development in external plann-ing theory and ideas was systematically introduced is a conspicuous lack in our country. This is main because that we always lay emphasis on practice technic-al ability, neglect to study planning theory. For a planning person, if he knows the origin, background of planning ideas and its historic success and failure. then he can resolve many complicated problems in real life. For this, the paper gives some simple information about planning theory and ideas from 16th century.