城市的发展演变过程也是产生、聚集、演绎文化的过程, 并由此深刻地影响着人类的生活 品质。从文化角度来审视城市化现象, 可以更综合、更系统地去认识和把握城市化及其本质。通过 对大连市城市文化特质现状调查, 借助GIS 技术, 剖析在快速城市化过程中, 城市建成区与城市 郊区的文化分异, 并研究这种分异的空间特征、空间规律及其成因。研究结果表明, 目前大连的城 市文化发展现况存在着明显的空间分异, 中东部和南部地区城市文化发展程度较高, 西部和北部 地区发展程度较低。

The process of city' s development is also a process of the culture creating and coming together. It influences the mankind' s quality of life deeply. Therefore examining the phenomenon of urbanization from the culture, we can know the essence of urbanization systematically. This article investigates the present condition of urban cultural characteristic in Dalian, analyzes the cultural differentiation of the city area and suburban area in the process of fast urbanization by means of GIS, and studies such differentiation' s space characteristic, space regulation and its cause of formation. The results from the present investigation suggest that the reality of the urban culture development in Dalian has obvious spatial differentiation. The east central and the south parts enjoy a higher degree of urban culture development, but the west and the north parts are lower.