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The Post- Metropolitan Theory And The Construction Of China’s Contemporary City Culture Theory

Posted on:2015-06-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P Y ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330461455200Subject:Literature and art
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Our country started with vigour and vitality of the city development since the reform and opening up, the urbanization rate increased from 17.9% to 53.7%2, there is no doubt that this is a major achievement China sustained economic and social development. Is in the process of economic transformation and upgrading,accelerate the modernization of an important period of Chinese, critical period of in-depth development and town, contains enormous development opportunities at the same time, new risks and challenges also to us sounded the clarion call. Since the level of economic and social development of the"price scissors", the real problem of contemporary city Chinese development appears in the process of city, in western developed countries. In the long history of reference, but the construction of our country city culture theory is far failed to keep up with the pace of development of the reality of city, it is difficult to in-depth analysis and effective the theoretical guidance for the various problems. Therefore, critically absorb resources theory of western city culture provides the fractal path and effective guidance for the contemporary city development in china. This paper is to American contemporary urban theorist Edward W. Soja the post-metropolitan theory as the main research object, the integrated use of cultural studies, sociology theory, comparative analysis through the. interpretation of Soja space theory and China city development reality and theory construction present situation, to explore a new path Chinese city culture theory construction.Sub space theory research status review and the introduction part briefly introduces the Soja life experiences and twentieth Century western academic space turn, at home and abroad, in order to pave the way for the expansion. In the first chapter of society of the industry after post-modernism and by Lefebvre, Foucault, Soja, Harvey and other scholars to space to two theoretical clues, clarify the Soja space theory background, the thought foundation and the theory origin. The second chapter to Soja’s "Space Trilogy":"postmodern Geographies:reaffirming the space in critical social theory" (1989), "the third space:go to Losangeles and other places of the real and imaginary journey" (1996) and "post-Metropolis:a critical study of the city and region" (2000) as the main line specific explanation there post-metropolis theoretical content before and after contact and development,summarizes the theory system.The third chapter combined with the actual situation of reform and opening up the city after the accelerating process and recently proposed new urbanization planning of city development in China, to analyze the contemporary China city culture theory construction status,emphasis on research ideas existing in advocating the third research vision for special-shaped topology research, to time to face up to the reality of the development China city on criticizing and absorbing the cable resources subspace theory, and promote the development of contemporary Chinese city culture theory construction, provides the path of analysis and effective guidance for the city development reality in our country.The conclusion part reference introduction, summarizes the main standpoints of this article and emphasize again.
Keywords/Search Tags:Edward Soja, the third space, post-metropolis, city culture
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