This research aims to summarize the basic path of urban furniture research in China and beyond, analyze the innovation hot spots, and look forward to the future research direction. Based on the Chinese and foreign periodicals retrieved from CNKI and WOS databases, the research paths and innovation hotspots were analyzed and summarized by using the methods of induction and bibliometrics. The current urban furniture research focuses on the such four paths as user demand observation and crowd care, influencing factors mechanism, multi-dimensional design thinking, and innovative application of emerging technologies, and has formed four types of cross integration practice:design guidelines, renovation schemes, standards and regulations, and planning policies. On the one hand, domestic research focuses on four aspects to achieve innovation:adapting to users' private needs, exploring urban dual repair path, optimizing people-oriented street design, and promoting smart city construction. On the other hand, foreign research focuses on four new areas:intelligent furniture service optimization, green infrastructure improvement, sustainable and parametric construction, and intelligent algorithm model support. In the future, it is necessary to pay attention to the systematic research on the needs of urban furniture users, solving the practical problems in the field of urban furniture, exploring the urban furniture design mode of multi-disciplinary cooperation, and further refining the theoretical system of urban furniture, so as to realize the comprehensive and systematic development of urban furniture research in a positive way.