Abstract
As the abstract of the main parts of a doctoral dissertation, this paper tried to show the overall study skeleton: a sustainable urban design strategy could be investigated from two domains, the space construction and the social action. In the perspective of "conflict", according to the urban development of Shanghai, five conflict fields were proposed and the relevant empirical studies were implemented, focusing on the above two dimensions and combined closely with the stage characteristics of urban development to explore practical approaches of sustainable urban design. Also, the content framework of sustainable urban design strategies was formed based on the above study and enumerated briefly.
