Abstract: Urban Grid Management Mode (UGMM) is born against the background of the fast development of digital city. It is a set of urban management ideas, tools, organizations and flow, which is on the base of digital technologies and takes grid management as its ba- sic character. Digital management, close-loop, precision management and dynamic management are the features of UGMM. UGMM con- sists of management thought, organization design, management process and evaluation system. Key technologies for UGMM include technologies of 3S, grid and grid computing, component, middleware, geo-coding, MGIS and so on. In recent years, great progress on UGMM has been made; however, there are also some problems need our attention. Therefore we have to take right steps to improve UGMM. Key words: grid; urban management mode; basic content; system; problem; step