| With the acceleration of urbanization and the transformation of economic growth from pursuing high speed to high quality,the protection of famous historical and cultural towns is facing new challenges and opportunities.Under the background of rural contraction,there are some practical problems in the cultural space of ancient towns,such as declining value,out of control of style and features,and insufficient attention to non-legacy and social structure,which restrict the promotion of protection efficiency of ancient towns.On the basis of comprehensive understanding of the current situation of the ancient town,how to change the traditional passive protection mode,adopt the strategy of "smart protection" and rebuild the cultural space of the ancient town,so as to protect and inherit the cultural heritage of the ancient town,restore the cultural vitality of the ancient town and improve the quality of life of the ancient town.The research follows the basic principle of "problem-oriented",adopts the logical route of "discovering problems-analyzing problems-solving problems",and adopts the research ideas of "combing development background-analyzing elements-summarizing current problems-analyzing problem mechanisms-proposing coping strategies".It is considered that the shortcomings of traditional protection methods in implementation and feedback are difficult to cope with the stubborn diseases in the protection of ancient town cultural heritage,which leads to limited improvement of protection efficiency and continuous decline of ancient town cultural value Taking the first batch of famous historical and cultural towns in Chongqing as an example,this paper analyzes the current situation of cultural space in ancient towns and its causes,constructs a theoretical perspective of "smart protection",and takes "cultural space" as a breakthrough point,and puts forward some countermeasures to reshape and improve the protection efficiency of cultural space in ancient towns.This paper is divided into six chapters.The first and second chapters mainly expound the research background,purpose and significance,and summarize and summarize the domestic and foreign related research on the protection of famous historical and cultural towns,rural contraction and cultural space,paving the theoretical background and foundation for the thesis writing.The third chapter,by analyzing the present situation of Chongqing’s famous historical and cultural towns in mountainous areas,deeply understands its related background,value cognition,development stage,cultural space elements and cultural space protection.The fourth chapter reveals the mechanism of the decline of cultural space in famous historical and cultural towns from the perspectives of economy,society,natural environment and humanistic concept,and then finds out the changing trend of cultural value of famous historical and cultural towns by assigning values to cultural elements.The fifth chapter explains the theoretical source,connotation and application scenario of the "smart protection" theory,and puts forward the strategy of reshaping the ancient town’s cultural space based on the "smart protection",as well as the countermeasures to improve the protection efficiency.Finally,the sixth chapter summarizes the main conclusions and innovations of this study,and points out the shortcomings and prospects of this study. |