The capital of the Yuan Dynasty, which is today's Beijing, is located at the northern end of the North China Plain, at the crossroads leading to the Northeast Plain. "You yan land, surrounded by dragon and tiger, the situation is magnificent. The south controls the river and the north controls the desert, and the son of heaven must be in the middle to see the four directions. " During the Warring States period, a city was formed here, and the Liao Dynasty established its capital here. Jin Dynasty built Jinzhongdu in the east and south of Liaocheng. After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the gold, he went to Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu, built a new palace with the water surface of Qiongdao (now Beihai) in the northeast suburb of Zhongdu as the core, and then built Dadoucheng.

Most areas of the Yuan Dynasty were arranged around Miyagi and Imperial City. The outline of the city is close to a square, and the central axis of the city is the central axis of Miyagi. Because the terrain is flat and newly built, the road system is neat and straight, forming a square grid. The roads in the city are divided into "Thousand Roads" and "Hutong": Thousand Roads are about 25 meters wide and Hutong is 6-7 meters wide. Hutongs are all east-west, and the distance between the front and back hutongs is about 50 steps. The residential base is divided between two hutongs. This regular layout of streets and lanes, and Li Fang before the Tang Dynasty, formed two different ways to deal with residential areas.

The functional layout of most areas of the Yuan Dynasty started from Zhou Li, and the city was reset three times, with Miyagi in the middle, the front facing backward, and the left and right clubs facing the market outlook, forming a pattern of guarding the political center centripetally. Its greatest achievement in space art is: consciously organizing the spatial mechanism of the whole city, breaking through the previous situation of simply explaining the etiquette system and only paying attention to the political etiquette axis.

Dadu in Yuan Dynasty is the largest capital city built from scratch since Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty. It inherited, summarized and developed the excellent tradition of ancient capital planning in China, and became one of the largest and most magnificent cities in the world at that time.