Research On The Promoting Function Of Cultural Capital For Urban Livability

"Livable city"is an important aim for urban development in our country. Urban development in any space and time should be people-oriented and aim for promoting people's living state. Human activity has relationship with cultural factors because of human's cultural essence. Cultural factors play an important role in the constructing process of"livable city". But cultural factors haven't been paid enough attention to in the construction of"livable city"nowadays. This paper takes the promoting function of cultural capital on urban livability as aim to attract more attention on cultural capital and support the operating and managing of cultural capital in the practice process of"livable city"construction. In the paper,"ontology of living"is the macroscopic clue. Structural-functionalism analysis, questionnaire method, factor analysis, regression analysis, group-AHP, multi-layer forward BP Artificial Neural Networks and mathematical model are used. This paper does an exploratory research in the promoting function of cultural capital on urban livability based on conditions above.This paper establishes the theoretic research framework based on"ontology of living"for studing the function of urban cultural capital in urban livability construction. The precondition of the framework is"ontology of living". Based on the precondition, conception model of urban cultural capital including the connotation, extension and character has been constructed. Connotation and extension of livable city and urban livability have been defined. Taking urban livability as the entrance, the necessity and function path of urban cultural capital in constructing process of urban livability has been revealed theoretically based on the distinguishing of big culture and small culture.Obvious promoting function of urban cultural capital for urban livability has been checked out by method of relativity analysis. Hypotheses about cultural capital's function are proposed based on upgrading the urban livability. Then we check these hypotheses by the way of empirical research. Necessary dates are gotten by questionnaire survey. All hypotheses are checked by factor analysis and regression analysis after carrying out the reliability, validity and alternative bias check and results are presented. Discribe the results of the hypothesis test to answer the question of if cultural capital has obvious promoting function on urban livability. The study results show that, although some urban cultural capital factors don't present siginificant function or present minus function, cultural capital has already expressed all-sided functions in the whole. From the results, we find out that all environments'livability of culture, society, economy and nature have relationship with urban cultural capital condition. Except natural environment's livability, the other environment's livability has positive correlation with cultural capital.Differences of each cultural capital factors'promoting function on urban livability are studied by simulating and forecasting the change of the output value of urban livability with the change of urban cultural capital's value. We design the study, explain the selective process of simulating model and method of weitht coefficient calculation, describe the select result, explain how to get necessary dates in the paper. Then we carry out the reliability, validity and alternative bias check of dates. Simulating model is established and related weight coefficient is calcuated by MATLAB. Change of the output of the model are gotten under the condition of defferent urban cultural capital's value by MATLAB. The simulating results show that the importance of each urban cultural capital factor is different, and the function of cultural characteristic rooted in residents'behavior in ordinary living and culture endued with value by educational system is biggest. Comparing with empirical study results, the functions of urban cultural capital between ideal and practice are different.The ways about how to optimize the output of the promoting function of urban cultural capital for urban livability have been studied. The logic mathematic accumulation model of urban cultural capital is constructed. The model includes three factors (input, makings of related personnel, attitude of denizen to cultural capital) which can influence the accumulation result and four main bodies (urban government, corporations in the city, corporations out of the city,urban denizen) who can operate the accumulation process. By the model, the changes of cultural capital accumulation under different conditions are emulated by MATLAB. The simulating results disclose that the basic condition for increasing the function output is keeping persistent accumulation of cultural capital and input necessary funds, labour force and materials. In all factors, the promotion of diathesis of persons and technology application can output the optimal optimizing result. Of all main bodies, the rational planning of urban government can output the optimal optimizing result.The exploratory research of the promoting function of cultural capital for urban livability in this paper not only extends the theoretical investigation of cultural capital and livable city, but also accommodates the practice needs of livable city constructing.