He says that the professors at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, based on their experiences abroad in community development, emphasized "participatory planning," meaning that the urban planner must leave his air-conditioned office, initiate planning by interacting with the users, and break the former pattern of top-to-bottom decision making.
他說，城鄉所教授源自國外經驗的社區建築，強調所謂「參與式設計」，也就是專業者必須走出冷氣房，從使用者的需求出發做規劃，打破過去由上而下的決策模式。