| With the flourishing rise of creative industry areas, the new urban spaces have been continuously produced and expanded. 'Culture' now is not the accessory of the urban development any more. Relying on its increasing symbolic economic feature and successive and dynamic inherent running mechanism, culture has possessed structural power as well. The power has shown the following unique characteristics during the spacial production of urban creative industry areas: 1. To each relative interest group, culture has been an effective resort during the spacial reproduction of the creative industry areas which are reconstructed from the old urban industry architecture. 2. The free artists who work and live in the areas gradually bring out a new social identity and life style. Although the creative industry areas are public, they are still the results of struggle and compromise among different interest groups. Furthermore, in the name of 'culture', their act of appropriation of space has gained reasonable argument which is hardly be denied and resisted.Regard culture as an important consideration in the analysis of the mechanism of the production of space, which is the learned innovation of the dissertation. Meanwhile, it is an adventurous attempt, which may enrich the theories of the production of space, basing on the specific research object. When there is a growing tendency for culture to be combined with capital to accelerate a new style of industry, we should also resurvey our city and urban culture in the way of cultural industry. |
