场所叙事及其对于城市文化特色与认同性建构探索——以上海滨水历史地段更新为例

STUDY ON PLACE NARRATIVE AND ITS APPLICATION TO URBAN CULTURE CHARACTERISTICS AND IDENTITY' SHAPING: A CASE OF THE RENEWAL OF WATERFRONT HISTORIC SITES IN SHANGHAI

论文综述了国内外关于场所的相关理论研究,提出了一种城市文化特色塑造的基础性的新方法"场所叙事"。论文阐述了相关的定义与内容,探索了城市文化特色与其认同性建构的场所叙事策略与路径。相比传统基于物质形象塑造模式,场所叙事更倾向于将场所中隐含的非物质的社会文化信息展现到物质空间之中,来凸显城市亚文化;同时,场所叙事提供了一种跨学科的框架来建构文化认同,培育场所与人之间的和谐关系。此外,论文对上海滨水历史街区"老码头"更新进行考查,从场所叙事角度,来诠释与验证其策略在历史街区重构中的适用性。本文的贡献在于为当下中国城镇化进程中塑造城市地域文化特色提供了新思路。

Urban Cultural characteristics and identity are becoming extremely important during the process of urban renewal today,which are normally related to three elements,such as people,place and product.The paper focuses on place and its interrelation with urban culture via the method of narration.Although place is becoming one of main topics in geography,architecture,landscape and urban studies,the interplay of place-narrative in characterizing urban culture has not been addressed,particularly in these historic sites and memory places.Based on narrative language and strategies,it refines the cultural meaning and represents the historic information of a place to create place experience and make the identity of place.The body of this research explores several important strategies of place narratives with urban culture characteristics for the renewal of urban historical sites.The strategies could be summarized as follow： the first is to keep existing grids and activate thematic scenes dictated by historical information to create stages for free activities;the second is to cultivate old buildings with collective memories to show true and vivid urban culture with regional features;the third is to set props such as sculptures,distinctive furniture and materials with identical sign to shape features of urban spaces in the same cultural context;the fourth is to integrate different implicit natural landscape into open spaces accordingly to the degree of demonstrating community stories.These strategies can not only provide a critical framework for improving the humanistic qualities and cultural characteristics of urban space,communicating historical stories,recalling collective memories,but also offer district opportunities to inspire non-formal activities,promote social interaction and communication in the street level,and to construct identity of culture.