To cultivate applicationoriented talents for city planning (AOTCP), we analyzed the characteristics of society demands for AOTCP based on a survey of the employment situation of graduate students, introduced fundamental abilities of AOTCP, and proposed five relevant teaching methods.The five relevant teaching methods are taking main specialized courses as the foundation of cultivating talents, adding knowledge of economy, society and administration to instructional contents, strengthening education for allround development, reforming teaching methods, and teaching undergraduate students through cooperating college with enterprise.