Community Planning theory and its practice courses play a vital role in urban and rural planning majors in colleges and universities,which,together with the progressive and continuous training of architectural design,landscape design,rural planning and design,regulatory detailed planning,and other related design courses,constitute a complete practical teaching system of urban and rural planning major.At present,there are few colleges and universities offering Community Planning courses for urban and rural planning majors in China,and the differences are significant.Moreover,there are problems such as insufficient practice and insufficient public participation.Community development,community planning,and its related courses in American colleges and universities have developed earlier,experienced a long period of construction and improvement,and formed a relatively mature teaching system and practice model.This paper summarizes the experience of Community Planning course teaching in three typical American universities to provide reference and inspiration for the course setting and teaching system construction of Community Planning in China.
Community Planninglaboratory curriculumurban and rural planningAmerican colleges and universitiesteaching reformation