A Research About Characteristics Of Dunhuang City Based On The Image Space

The emergence of city characteristic crisis is a wake-up call to the urban construction and development. Correctly grasp the urban regional culture can enrich and improve the taste and connotation of the city, and make the city construction characteristic and attractive.In the famous historical and cultural city Dunhuang,the tourism industry is the pillar industry, its image construction is more important significance for the development of the city.In the new period,how to dig deeper into its own regional culture,highlight the characteristics of city, promote the development of tourism, need further research.Based on the theories of city images and production of space, the paper explored the constitutive model of city characters as well as two approaches to perceive city characters, which are the traditional evaluation of spatial experience and perception research through image space. The paper studied the dynamic mechanism of city character’s shaping and the elements to characterize space, and then put forward the strategies to build city’s character.Through the above two approaches, the paper put Dunhuang city as an example to research. First, from the space experience of city character, the paper analyzed and evaluated the characteristics of Dunhuang city. Based on the analysis of historical evolution of Dunhuang space, then the paper studied the image space of Dunhuang city through the method of cognitive map. On the basis, the paper analyzed the process of Dunhuang image space’s formation and characterization. Finally, the paper put forward the strategies to build Dunhuang’s character.It has a strong theoretical and practical significance in the research of the formation process of Dunhuang city image space,mining formation mechanism of feature space in order to improve the city features, to provide design basis for the urban construction, at the same time,serve as a reference for the other tourist cities of characteristic shape.