城市区片地名的演化机制及其历史记忆功能——以上海中心城区为例

Self-evolutive Mechanism of Urban-areal Placenames and Its Cultural Heritage Value—A Case Study of Shanghai Downtown Region

本文以上海市中心城区的区片地名为对象,对城市地名系统的演化机制及其社会文化功能进行个案研究。结论认为:城市区片地名是地域开发过程中人地关系变迁的重要"证据"与城市历史记忆的"活化石",具有突出的文化遗产价值。在原来的乡村地名系统中,那些能较好体现中心聚落之经济实力和保存典型地域景观记忆的传统地名,更有可能转化进入城市地名系统,并作为城市区片地名而长期延续。

This essay offers a special and historical analysis on the downtown placenames of Shanghai, and comes to the point that the original placenames, economical and natural factors, have more possibilities to enter and last into the urban placename system and finally be solidified as the urban-areal placenames.