城市特色与城市意象形态

在城市化的进程中，现代城市面临特色消褪和形象趋同问题。如何通过有效的手段创造、改造和控制城市物质形态，塑造城市特色，成为城市设计的重要研究方向。根据这一目标，作者在城市意象理论和形态理论的基础上，提出了城市意象形态的概念，指出城市意象形态是城市设计构思的出发点。

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF CITIES AND THEIR IMAGE FORMS

Cityes in our time are facing dissipation of caracters and assimilation of image and form.How to creat,reform,and regulate city's physical form and pattern fostering the city its specific features,has become a major topic of study.The author discusses the concept of city's characteristic features which, he points out, is the starting point of mentally composing a urban design.