Mumford's famous saying: “the city is the cultural vessel.”Indeed, the different urban appearance, the street landscape, is we distinguishes, the understanding different culture most direct way. The urban architecture is called “coagulation music”, its load bearing, the coagulation are not only the chitectural arts, moreover is different time social culture, historical culture, national culture, region culture, political culture and so on.
The Chinese modern metropolis's formation mainly comes from two kind of different histories: First, partial port city: Like Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dalian and so on, in the colonial rule or the foreign settlement time, are mainly today's urban pattern which and the appearance forms under foreigner's management; Second, historical culture old city: Like Beijing, Nanjing, Xi'an and so on, are mainly in near several dozens year social change, manages, the construction and the transformation by Chinese, forms today's urban appearance.
The architect and plans the expert to believe that since World War II under the modernism theory instruction take the large-scale reconstruction as the characteristic urban renewal movement, has not had the success precedent nearly in the West, should realize “the community develops” the plan, the evolution type plan, the public choice plan, the historical block repair, the small scale reconstruction, the inhabitant from to construct and so on many kinds of new theories and the practice value. This article the comparison which will form from Beijing and the Nanjing urban planning, from the 50s to the 90s's new Beijing, the urban construction “Hong Kong pattern”, in the construction pop culture, the crossroad street intersection's urban five aspects will introduce the urban construction culture briefly.
建设文化Construction culture
城市建筑 Urban architecture
城市规划Urban planning
流行文化 Pop culture