A Study on the Concept and Practice of Lanzhou Urban Heritage as Cultural Memory Place under the Integration of Cultural and Tourism

Abstract

Since the 21st century, the effective protection and rational use of urban cultural heritage have been the strategic development direction of urban construction under the background of the integration of culture and tourism all over the world. Moreover, today’s cultural heritage protection practice has undergone a “cognitive turn” from material protection to cultural protection. How can urban cultural heritage resist the dissolution of local cultural identities and vanished historical memories in the process of globalization? How can urban heritage be transformed successfully by using new media to add value in a digital context? Taking Lanzhou, a famous historical and cultural city as an example, this paper analyzes the practice cases of cultural heritage protection in the city from three dimensions: the shaping of the cultural identity of the urban heritage, the construction of the tourism space of the heritage site, and the sharing of cultural heritage in the digital age. The purpose is to clarify the development trend of “cultural memory space” has become cultural heritage protection practices, and to sort out the path and deep connotation of cultural memory space.