以数字虚拟文化空间营造为导向的城市更新

Urban Renewal towards the Creation of Digital Virtual Cultural Space

进入新阶段的中国城市更新工作囊括了城市各个空间维度亟需解决的问题,不仅包括物理意义上的城市空间环境问题,还包括城市综合治理方面的文化环境与游憩环境的升级改造。在互联网已全面进入web2.0时代的前提条件下,城市空间特别是城市文化空间的营造也开始使用数字虚拟化手段,开发者们将城市历史与文化资源进行数据化方式留存,以更为丰富的视觉化来吸引参与者们投入更多的时间,以数字技术媒介投身于虚拟文化场所进行文化学习与交流。当代数字出版业、游戏行业与数字旅游的勃兴,代表着文化参与行为模式已经发生了在场—在线的双轨并行。针对这种转化,应充分利用当代数字技术手段来突破现实与虚拟壁垒,依托现实物理空间之上的数字虚拟文化空间,结合当前“元宇宙”等逻辑架构,通过现实更新与场域搭建的并行机制来形成“平行城市”概念,以期为未来中国城市更新模式提供更为宽广的思路。

China’s urban renewal work has entered a new phase.It covers all the urgent issues of urban spatial dimensions.They include not only the environmental problems of urban space in the physical sense,but also the upgrading and reconstruction of cultural and recreational environments in the field of compre⁃hensive urban governance.When the Internet has entered the web2.0 era all round currently,digital virtual technologies have been brought into the construction of urban space,especially the urban cultural space.Developers conserve urban historical and cultural resources digitally as data,and engage participants with richer visualizations to invest more time,so that they can learn and exchange culturally at virtual cultural venues via digital technology and media.The booming of contemporary publishing industry,game industry,and digital tourism shows that in the modern society the behavior pattern of cultural participation has taken place on the spot and online in a parallel manner.To cope with such a transformation,the current digital technology and means should be fully employed to break through the barrier between the real and virtual realms.A“parallel city”can be established by relying on the digital virtual cultural space that is built on real physical space,metaverse and other logical structures,and the parallel mechanism of updating reality and constructing relevant scenery.This will hopefully provide a broader view for China’s urban renewal in the future.