With the acceleration of urbanization and the improvement of architectural teaching system, the teaching of urban history should go further on the trends of openness and practicality, and make the students understand the conception of history in the process of urbanization from the interdisciplinary view. Along with the extensive intervention of various disciplines, the research on urban history is no longer confined to the descriptive introduction of urban construction process, and begins to focus on the underlying social structure, ideas and values, and urban social change. The openness of this research trend will further develop the vision of urban history teaching. Moreover, urban history teaching should be based on the features of architectural subjects, further closely integrate with social practice so that teaching in architecture area could go further on the trends of openness and practicality.