Lefebvre advocates a perpetual evolution on everyday life which should inherit philosophic tradition as well as should confirm and interpret a new everyday life,and its aim to construct an urbanism.

Urban public space quality and New Urbanism design

Firstly,based on the design concept of new urbanism,the ideas of new urbanism in the residential community design are analyzed,such as stressing ecological balance,designing neighborhood,constructing compound residential communities,protecting cultural resources,and so on.

This paper advocates the conceptof new urbanism,which claims the restoration of existing urban centres and towns in the transformation of the old cities,and diversity and humanity of the neighbourhood,protection of natural environment and cultural heritage.

Exploration of the Practice of the New Urbanism in China;

This paper first gives an introduction about the main idea and principle of the new urbanism; Then taking the Beijing Wannian Hua City Community Master Plan for example, The author points out the active significance of the new urbanism f or the community planning development, and presents the difficulties of the implementation and the future of the new urbanism as well.

Debates on metropolitan regionalism have been proliferating in major western countries since early 1990s, the practices in the US have been regarded as the important examples.