The theory of the urban design mainly comes from three sources, the architecture, the planning and the landscape design. On the basis of the core principles of these sources, the author explores the development of the typical urban design theory, comes up with a significant inference of the urban design methodology of the element flow (pack, formation, set, …) oriented morphology, i.e. the element movement determines the urban form, and illustrates its principle and approach.

urban design  /  methodology  /  elements flow  /  urban form