Research On The Local Construction Of Urban Cultural Landscape

Cultural landscape is one of the important research parts of cultural geography.In the context of the spatial turn and cultural turn in the social sciences,cultural landscape has once again become a focus of human geography,which pays more attention to the meaning behind the landscape-the local nature of the landscape.Studying cultural landscapes involves many core research issues such as mobility and people-land relations,and includes many paradigms of social science and humanism.In recent years,cultural landscape research has mainly concentrated in rural areas and few in urban.The cultural landscape of the city is the symbol of the city’s historical memory,and it is a vivid manifestation of the city’s cultural personality and taste.However,due to the over commercialization,the locality of a large number of urban cultural landscapes has been gradually weakened,resulting in a“thousand-city-one-side" pattern.From the local perspective,this paper uses Tianzifang in Shanghai as a case to analyze the local formation mechanism of urban cultural landscape.The article traces back the history of Tianzifang’s development,and uses a combination of traditional ethnography and virtual ethnography to investigate Tianzifang’s different core stakeholders,including residents,government agencies,business owners,and tourists for the local interpretation and deconstruction;combined with collective memory and symbolic theory,tries to reconstruct Tianzifang’s locality.:(1)Locality is fluid,progressive,and evolving,so the local construction of urban cultural landscape is a dynamic process.(2)The local construction of urban cultural landscape is the result of human-land relationship and power game.Stakeholders continued to tap Tianzifang’s locality by renovating the Tianzifang space.In the course of their power game,Tian zifang has been given locality.(3)Locality is dispelled by the imbalance of power among different stakeholders,leading to the commercialization and homogenization of urban cultural landscapes.Therefore,local governments must establish a co-management mechanism for cooperation between the government,residents,and business owners.Standardize the communication mechanism between residents,business owners and tourists,so that the locality will be continuously protected and developed.(4)The role of emotion in local reconstruction cannot be ignored.This paper provides a theoretical basis for a deep understanding of the relationship between urban cultural landscape development and local construction,and has a strong inspiration for the sustainable development of urban cultural landscape and the inheritance of urban culture in specific space.