Research On The Role Of Local Culture In Shaping The City's Spirit

Local culture,the important basis for the development of an area or a city andthe significant driving force of the city’s sustainable development,represents aunique quality of the area or city.It is also a cultural individuality,extract of the areaor city’s dominant sense,the pursuit of the city value and the spiritual pillar,and thecore strength of the city’s comprehensive competiveness.The process,carryingforward the urbanization energetically,also depends on the local culture to modelcity spirt,which leads the residents to strive to be strong.City spirit is the local culture ’s concentrated reflection and also a city’s brand.The vitality of the brand lies in the local culture where it depends. The local culture, theintelligent crystal combining the local history with the traditional civilization and thelife sedimentation accumulated by the local residents for many years,evenmore than several centuries,has already been the impress in the local residents’lives..It is also the outcome that people improve their qualify of life,pursue theadvancement and develop the creation continuously.Local culture is the foundation ofcity spirit,and city spirit is the sublimation of local culture.City spirit,the extractof cityspirit’s dominant sense,is a intelligent mixture of sensibility and rationality and theintelligent surge of the past and modern’s civilization.Local culture and city spirit arein harmony,promote mutually and develop dialectically and uniformly.The spiritual construction of a city is based on the local culture and it need fornew enery and pioneering spirit.The urban spirit is not only to express the importantconnotation and distinguished feature of local culture,but also keep pace with thetimes,and play the role of advanced and leading.For spiritual construction of thecity,we need to combine the historical origin with local color.But moreimportantly,we should concern about the epochal character and hold the pulse of thetimes and keep pace with the times.A city with strong cultural content and moderncity spiritual culture.So it must be a unique and special city.And the spiritualconstruction of a city is needed for holding the inner link of the local culture withit.This chapter femonstrats in Kunshan city. First,we analysis the production andfeatures of the Lucheng culture,then resolve the Lucheng culture’s expression in theKushan spirit to illustrate the consistence of Lucheng culture and spiritualconstruction of the Kunshan.Finally,here are several suggestions combining. with the challenge Kunshan city is confronted with,to model city spirit.Making enrichingpeople and strengtheing the city come true,and setting stage for the materialbasis;Cultivating modern residents,and improving the cultural environment;Bulidingthe beautiful city and constructing the conservation culture;Setting up the city brandand grasp the basic routine.