Cities face complex challenges in different periods, which represent local features. This book attempts to analyze city planning and development from 1841 to the present from social, political and economic perspectives of different stages. It discusses characteristics and features of the laws and regulations, land uses, housing policies, economic development, environment protection, sustainable development and regional planning, analyzes trend of changes taken place in city planning, compare the mutual interaction between city planning and social structure, understand how city needs influences city planning while how city planning changes social structures, so as to serve as a reference for future city planning.