Abstract:

Culture is an important strategy and means of urban renewal, but it also faces risks and challenges of instrumentalization, symbolization, and consumerism. Local culture is rooted in local resources and has evolved over time. On the one hand, it can empower the high-quality development of urban renewal; on the other hand, urban renewal initiatives also create opportunities for the dynamic construction of local culture. This paper argues that local culture and urban renewal have the potential for mutual empowerment. Based on the analysis of the logical basis and conceptual connotation of the mutual empowerment of local culture and urban renewal, this paper constructs a logical framework for the mutual empowerment of both. Taking the urban renewal of Xiaoxihu in Nanjing as an example, the path and effect of mutual empowerment of local culture and urban renewal are explored. The research finds that: ① Local culture has the characteristics of regionalism, subjectivity, implicitness, normativity, and integration. The material, social, psychological, behavioral, and institutional elements it possesses can provide intrinsic motivation for the emergence and sustained promotion of urban renewal; ② Urban renewal is comprehensive, action-oriented, and process-oriented. It can provide a field of practice for the dynamic construction of local culture through spatial renewal, vitality shaping, emotional connection, action guidance, and institutional guarantees; ③ The mutual empowerment of local culture and urban renewal is mainly reflected in the awakening and manifestation of local memory, the continuation and regeneration of social networks, the infiltration and strengthening of emotional connections, the activation and transformation of community consciousness, and the upgrading and evolution of deliberative traditions; ④ The mutual empowerment of local culture and urban renewal is a process of synergistic coexistence of five dimensions: place, social group, emotion, action, governance. The effect of mutual empowerment is to promote the renewal area to become a new regional community, living community, spiritual community, behavioral community, and governance community. The interaction between local culture and urban renewal requires continuous observation, feedback, and guidance.

Key words: local culture, urban renewal, mutual empowerment, Xiaoxihu in Nanjing

摘要：

文化是中西方城市更新的重要策略手段，同时存在被工具化、符号化与消费化的风险。在地文化依托本土资源，经长期历史积淀形成：它既可为城市更新高质量发展赋能，城市更新也为在地文化的动态存续与建构提供机遇，二者具备双向赋能潜力。本文在厘清其概念内涵与作用机理的基础上搭建双向赋能逻辑框架，并以南京小西湖更新项目为案例，探讨双向赋能的实现路径与实施效应。研究发现：①在地文化具有地域性、主体性、内隐性、规范性和整合性的特征，所蕴含的物质、社会、心理、行为和制度五大要素，可为城市更新的产生与持续推进提供内在动力；②城市更新具有综合性、行动性和过程性，可以通过空间更新、活力塑造、情感联结、行动引导和制度保障，为在地文化的动态建构提供实践场域；③在地文化与城市更新的双向赋能路径，主要体现在地方记忆的唤醒与彰显、社会网络的延续与再生、情感联结的浸润与强化、社区意识的激活与转化，以及议事传统的升级和进化等方面；④在地文化与城市更新的双向赋能是一个“场所-社群-情感-行动-治理”五大维度协同共生的过程，其综合效应是促进更新区域成为一个新的涵盖地域、生活、精神、行为和治理的社区共同体。在地文化与城市更新的相互作用需要不断观察、反馈、引导，只有正向的相互赋能才能催生社区共同体。

关键词: 在地文化, 城市更新, 双向赋能, 南京小西湖