To improve education quality of applicationoriented talents for city planning (AOTCP), the meaning of “4+1” education mode of training AOTCP was defined based on cultivating talents and teaching investigation and the arrangement of “4+1” education mode was introduced. Several primary processes of the mode were put forward. The following five aspects, regarding social demand as a goal of cultivating talents, laying a strong emphasis on basic theories and knowledge of correlating, strengthening practice teaching process, intensifying making education and innovation education, and cultivating talents through colleges united with enterprises, should be considered. The research results are a kind of reference for AOTCP cultivation.