| City culture preserved memories of the city, recorded the city historicalvicissitudes of life. In facts, there are inextricable links between the traditionalregional culture of city and modern life. Dock culture is the inevitable product ofprocess of expanding development, and covers the social activity and morphology,which is as the core of the economic activities, plays an important role in the longhistory of development. Therefore the protection of city memory, the protection ofhistorical continuity and retention of civilization development, is the urgent need formodern city construction.As a city developed on the special geographical environment, with convenienttransportation by water and the superior military geographical conditions, the historyof1500years of dock, street, lane, alley, Square, where is a complete city structure asa whole, has gradually disintegrated along with the rapid rise of the real estate market.That not only cause greater damage for the city’s historical and cultural environment,but also brought many problems to the city development.How to speed up thetraditional space protection in the process of rapid development of Xiangtan, hasbecome an urgent issue.Firstly, the article sort out the context of historical change from the city historyand social economy of Xiangtan, explore the historical context of continuity,interprete Xiangtan’s natural environment, business economic, cultural environment,customs and other factors on the influence of the formation of Xiangtan city dockculture regional characteristics. Secondly, from the perspective of traditional cityspatial structure regional expression, summed up the characteristics of reflectedtraditional space environment elements forâ€pointâ€, street bone "line", the spacetexture "surface" and the building-shaped "body "in four areas, proposed the cityconstruction should be on the basis of the city space environment resources protectionand and utilization levels, to scientificly review, cognite and understande the implicitvalue from the traditional docks, street, alley, Square, which as the main carrier of thegeographical features and enhancement of the quality of city life. Finally, deeplyanalysised the construction of the regional expression of Xiangtan city and dockcultural protection measures, put forward the construction of city construction andsocial development should be adapted to the needs of contemporary Xiangtan cultural dock system, guide the modern functional transformation of traditional dockculture. From the philosophy of regional protection and regeneration of historicalstreet and lane space life of Xiangtan city construction, fully consider the traditionalculture heritage into active and various contemporary social and cultural life, createthe city environment which is harmonyed with city construction and historical andcultural, consistented with the requirements of humanity and sustainabledevelopment. |