Process and mechanism of urban place making from the perspective of cultural and economic geography:The case of Dongguan Tea Warehouse
In recent years,the cultural economy has become an important means of urban reengineering,reshaping the post-industrial path of urban transformation and development.Taking Dongguan Tea Warehouse as the research object,this study interpreted the process and mechanism of urban place making from the perspective of cultural,economic,and geographical factors.The research found that:1)Dongguan Tea Warehouse place making has gone through four stages of development:The popular tea drinking culture,the chaotic tea culture in the absence of government intervention,the economic value of tea given by capital,and the economic attributes of tea culture constructed by multiple subjects.In this process,Dongguan Tea Warehouse's material environment,functional activities,and symbolic significance have changed accordingly.2)Territory in the spatial dimension,value in the temporal dimension,and meaning in the subject dimension of the Dongguan Tea Warehouse jointly constructed the mechanism of place making.The three dimensions are intertwined with each other and influence each other,and the cultural and economic attributes of the tea warehouses are more prominent when based on these three dimensions.3)Dongguan Tea Warehouse place making is essentially a process of moving from culture to culture and economy,the cultural and economic attributes of tea and the significance and value of place making are mutually constructed,and the process of developing culture and economy is the process of place making in the city.Overall,this study focused on specific cases in a more macro political,economic,and cultural context,using a micro perspective to examine the transformation and development of cities through an organic combination of macro and micro perspectives.In theory,it innovatively analyzed the explanatory power of cultural and economic geography in urban place making,and in practice,it provided a practical reference path for the place making of other industrial and resource-based cities during the transformation period.
cultural and economic geographyplace makingteaDongguan City