中轴线北端没入奥林匹克森林公园，南端复建了永定门；轨道交通亦庄线建设正酣；CBD、中关村、金融街正成为北京一个个功能“中心”……北京市测绘院院长温宗勇拿着2008年的卫星遥感影像图对记者介绍说，“北京新城建设即将大规模展开。”

　　小小的地图，记录着北京城市的变迁。温宗勇对记者介绍说，从解放初期第一个城市总体规划将北京定位为经济中心，到2004年第五次修编后提出的北京要“建设宜居城市”，北京这座城市发展的轨迹，在这些影像图上一览无余。

　　从1951年的航空遥感地图可以看出，北京城市发展范围在城墙内，凸字形的城墙，城里是胡同和平房，城外是荒野和农田。摄于1959年的遥感图上，已可清晰地看到基本建成的“十大建筑”。这时老城墙还在，城墙外的建筑明显增加。1967年的地图上，城市发展突破了城四区的局限，城八区范围内耸立起高楼大厦。

　　“从1975年到2008年，北京城市地貌变化巨大。”温宗勇从电脑中点出几张彩色地图。1975年的地图上，只有一条地铁线穿越东西；2008年的地图，八通线、5号线、奥运支线……北京地铁里程延伸到200公里，同时在城市中心区出现了更多的绿色区域及随处可见的街心花园。

　　“这样的城市地貌透视着每一个时期城市规划对北京的定位。”温院长介绍说，1953—1955年完成《改建与扩建北京市规划草案要点》和《北京市第一期城市建设计划要点》，提出北京是中国的政治、经济、文化中心，重点改建旧城区。1957—1958年对规划修编时提出北京要发展大工业。1982年，对总规进行第三次修编，明确城市性质时不再提“经济中心”和“现代化工业基地”。1992年总规第四次修编，明确市区不再扩大规模，强化在市区外围建设卫星城。2004年进行第五次修编，明确北京是全国的政治中心、文化中心，是世界著名古都和现代国际城市，提出“两轴两带多中心”的城市空间格局，坚持以人为本，建设宜居城市。

　　经过产业结构调整和城市功能重新定位，北京的城市空间布局发生了显著变化。制造业从城市的中心区域向外围区域转移，取而代之的是与北京历史、文化和现代信息社会发展相适应的第三产业和高科技产业，在中心城区，服务业的比重已超过80％。
 

The northern end of the axis did not enter the Olympic Forest Park, the southern tip of rehabilitation of the Yongdingmen; rail transportation Yizhuang line construction was going on; CBD, Zhongguancun, Beijing Financial Street is becoming a functional "center" ... ... Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing, Zong-Yong Canal the 2008 satellite remote sensing image of the reporter said, "Beijing City Construction will soon begin a large scale."

Small maps, records of the Beijing city's history. Zong-yong told reporters said, from the beginning the liberation of the first urban master plan will be positioned as the economic center of Beijing, to the 2004 revision made after the fifth time in Beijing to "build livable cities", the Beijing city development trajectory, in the These images map glance.

From the 1951 aerial remote sensing maps can be seen in the walls of Beijing city development area, the convex shape of the walls, the city is the alley and the cottage, outside the city is the wilderness and farmland. Photo of Remote Sensing in 1959, the map has been basically completed can clearly see the "Ten buildings." Then the old city walls are still the town was a marked increase in the building. The 1967 map, urban development, broke through the limitations of the four areas of the city, from eight districts in downtown high-rise buildings within the stands.

"From 1975 to 2008, the Beijing city landscape underwent tremendous changes." Zong-yong from the computer out of a few color map of the mid-point. Map of 1975, only one subway line through things; 2008 maps, Batong, Line 5, the Olympic distance of Beijing Metro Line ... ... extended to 200 km, while in the urban centers there are more green areas and the ubiquitous middle of the street gardens.

"This kind of urban landscape perspective with each of a period of urban planning for Beijing's position." Wenyuan Zhang said ,1953-1955 years to complete "reconstruction and extension of elements of a draft plan of Beijing" and the "first phase of Beijing's urban construction elements of the plan "and proposed that Beijing is China's political, economic and cultural center, focusing on alterations Old Town. 1957-1958 revision of the plan made by Beijing to develop large-scale industrial. In 1982, a third of the overall regulatory revision, clearly urban in nature no longer mention the "economic hub" and the "modern industrial base." General Regulations 1992, the fourth revision, clearly no longer the urban scale, strengthen the building of satellite towns in the urban periphery. The fifth revision in 2004, clearly Beijing is the country's political center and cultural center, is the world famous ancient capital and modern international city, that "two-axis 2 with multi-center" pattern of urban space, persist in people-oriented, building livable city .

Through industrial restructuring and repositioning of urban functions, the layout of Beijing's urban space has been significantly changed. Manufacturing from the city's central area to the periphery zone transfer, replaced with Beijing's historical, cultural and social development of modern information corresponding to the tertiary industry and high-tech industry in the central city, the service industry accounts for more than 80%.