Upholding tradition and embracing innovation: The civilizational narrative of a modern People’s City

  • HONG Xiang-hua ,
  • MENG Yi-jie
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Received date: 2026-07-02

  Revised date: 2026-07-19

  Online published: 2026-11-04

Abstract

The proposal of modern people's city is the inheritance and innovation of Chinese modernization to Marxist urban theory. It realizes the theoretical writing of the new form of human urban civilization with the integrity of position and the originality of theory. Focusing on the paradigm crisis and narrative dilemma of western urban civilization and the era context of China's new urban‐ization entering the transition of practical paradigm, the modern people's city has realized the narrative turn of human urban civiliza‐tion. The modern people's city adheres to the position of Marxist urban theory, the direction of Chinese-style modernization, and the cultural source of Chinese excellent traditional urban civilization. It expands and deepens the' affinity to the people', and innovates the value narrative of urban civilization ; in order to respond to the topic of the times, draw a" six in one" urban development picture, and innovate the target narrative of urban civilization ; with the reconstruction of governance reform and spatial justice, it innovates the functional narrative of urban civilization. The three narratives are interconnected to form a narrative system of urban civilization with the concept of" modern people's city" as the symbolic concept, which provides a Chinese answer to the new form of human urban civilization.

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HONG Xiang-hua , MENG Yi-jie . Upholding tradition and embracing innovation: The civilizational narrative of a modern People’s City[J]. Urban Problems, 2026 , 372(7) : 4 -11 . DOI: 10.13239/j.bjsshkxy.cswt.260701

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