The importance of the phase of urban design is clearly stressed in the paper based on the analyses of the characteristics of urban design in different stages with Jiangyin city as the case.

• 以江阴市新中心区城市设计项目为例，就城市设计各个不同阶段的特点进行了分析讨论，指出明晰城市设计的层次性的重要性。