【摘要】 得益于作者成長的獨特經歷,《為增長而規(guī)劃:中國城市與區(qū)域規(guī)劃》在過去與現(xiàn)在、西方和中國之間穿越。作者透過歷史看問題,指出規(guī)劃作為增長機器的關鍵性角色源遠流長,引自于西方的現(xiàn)代城市規(guī)劃在中國形成了重形態(tài)弱管制的傳統(tǒng)。書中對在改革開放后中國城市規(guī)劃如何重生進行了精彩的論述,對在發(fā)展與環(huán)境、中央與地方的關系張力中,規(guī)劃事權演變成三分而立這一中國怪相的分析入木三分。作者對現(xiàn)時中國"城市是什么?"的拷問更是令人深思。作者指出,中國城市作為"增長機器"是土地驅動型的,"規(guī)劃收益"集中表現(xiàn)為土地收益。那么,如果規(guī)劃是為增長而規(guī)劃,那它是為誰而規(guī)劃?這是一個讀后令人沉思的問題。另一方面,本書作為對當代中國城市規(guī)劃演繹的探討,對于在中國城市的規(guī)劃建設進程有顯著影響的典型案例以及對于驅動中國過去增長的"外向帶動"發(fā)展模式對城市規(guī)劃的影響沒有展開充分的討論,這不能不說是個遺憾。 

【Abstract】 Thanks to the author’s unique experience, Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China brings a sense of crossing the past and present, the West and China. With a historic perspective, the author points out that planning in China has a long history of playing a key role in the growth machine, imported from the West, planning practices in China has a tradition of emphasizing spatial structure and form. The book has a wonderful discussion on how urban planning to be reborn after China’s reform, analysed of the evolution of planning powers under the tension between the development and environment, central and local governments. The question raised by the author that, what is the current Chinese cities is thought-provoking. The author notes that Chinese cities are the land-driven"growth machines", the profit from the land sale is the "planning gain" in China. Therefore, if the planning is for growth, then the question is: planning for whom? As the book is about the evolution of contemporary Chinese urban planning, it will be better that, if the book has a fully discussion on those cases who had a significant impact on China’s urban planning transforming process, and if the book has more analysis on the impact of the Chinese "export-oriented" model of development on the urban planning evolution.