City, Urban Planning and the Creation of Urban Culture—Taking the Ancient City of Xi’an as an Example

摘要

City is the concentrated reflection of city culture. Urban planning as a synthetic discipline which that both social science and natural science, it plays an important role in the urban development and layout. Fully understand the city’s cultural implication, helps us went up from nature know and grasp the city, city to city planning and construction of theory research and practice has important guiding significance.This paper argumentation the relationship between the city, urban planning and city culture, believes culture is the city context. Have taken xi’an as an example, discussion the creation city culture in the process of planning and design from two aspects of the traditional Chinese urban culture inheritance and the creation of the contemporary city culture, then expounded the positive significance of creating urban culture, and putted forward reasonable scientific method of urban planning and urban design means to have a positive role in contemporary urban development.