The course on the history of urban construction and planning is oriented towards cultural consciousness and builds a framework of cognition-comprehension-reflection-self-reliance for curriculum-based ideological and political education. Combining the history of urban construction in ancient and modern times and the development of urban and rural planning ideas in two teaching sections, and tapping the elements of curriculum-based ideological and political education in terms of cultural self-confidence, road self-confidence, craftsmanship and family and country sentiment, it is to build a backbone-branching pathway for the integration of elements in curriculum-based ideological and political education. Applying diverse teaching methods to guide students to learn and inherit Chinese excellent urban planning traditions, comprehend the laws of world urban development and practise professionalism in the industry, it is to achieve the goal of curriculum-based ideological and political education for a same direction of knowledge transfer and people nurturing. It can provide reference for curriculum-based ideological and political education of relevant theory courses in urban and rural planning.