Urban transportation & built environment (TBE) planning is the core contents of urban comprehensive planning, and a kind of planning with transportation infrastructure planning and configuration as the main design content, and contains the relevant environmental design of the special planning. As one of the branches of the overall urban design or master plan, and the matching degree between the social economic conditions such as GDP, the main planning concepts like smart growth or TOD (transit oriented development) and policy guarantees like government initiatives of a legal nature and utility, such as land zoning laws and land management regulations for development zones, it has a continuous impact on urban development at different stages. In the important period when Chinese cities are facing with the transformation and development of spatial growth to connotation upgrading, the land development strategy of many cities has changed from incremental to stock, which not only begins to have the overall spatial boundary control, but also pays more attention to the harmonious relationships between ecology, production and life, and pays more attention to the development of social relations in addition to the economic benefits of the city. Further examining the paradigm changes (including the background, development concept, planning key points, implementation effect, etc.) in the comprehensive planning of metropolis in developed countries at different stages, comparing the phased characteristics of the development of China’s metropolis since 1979, which is the real development period of China, will provide a useful reference for the qualitative development in future. By combing the development context of TBE planning in some cities in China and the United States, it is believed that the evolution of TBE development in large cities in the United States reflects the continuous innovation and development of the comprehensive planning paradigm under the mutual influence of TBE. It embodies typical differentiated phase characteristics in planning concepts, technical methods and implementation guarantees. China’s metropolitan transportation development is a process of constantly learning from the construction experience of developed countries and combining with its own practice. With the further advancement of regional integration and transportation system construction, some large cities have begun to rise from spatial expansion to the level of policy governance. The large number of traffic flows generated at the regional level require coordinated governance of multiple cities. A variety of new travel modes put forward new requirements for traffic management. The development of big data has created brand-new technical means for urban traffic governance, which requires multiple parties such as government, enterprises, and the public to participate in traffic governance. Under the current background of the reform of the space planning system, the spatial development of China’s large cities embodies the four new trends of people-oriented, regional integration, quality improvement, and diversified values. The paradigm evolution of comprehensive planning has gone through four stages, the first stage with the construction of road traffic facilities as the main body, the second stage with the construction of traffic facilities promoted by the development of the built environment as the main body, the mutual support and guidance of TBE, and the gradual promulgation of traffic management policies is the third stage of the main body, and the fourth stage of expansion and deepening is supported by big data, characterized by spatial quality improvement, targeted for travel services, and guaranteed by demand management. In the future, the focus of comprehensive planning will be given to consideration to the demand for renewal of space stock and the multiple objectives of sustainable development, better practice people-oriented in space, so as to achieve new breakthroughs in space governance by continuously improving the quality of space.