近三十多年来，随着全球化的深入和消费主义的全面到来，全国各大城市新文化景观层出不穷。新城市文化空间无论是被描绘成引领现代创新潮流的舞台，或者被质疑为国外设计师的试验场，都已让人无可辩驳地改变着城市的结构。是什么力量强化了这种趋势并促使这类事物的反复出现？同时，我们作为公众所进行消费是否也是一种参与式的再建构？本项目将基于建构主义和人本主义方法论，援引行动者网络理论、空间生产理论和符号消费理论，以北京、广州、乌鲁木齐、拉萨为研究样地，分析城市新文化空间的建构和消费机制。在此基础上，探索文化、消费与中心地空间格局和等级的关系，在城市体系和城市空间两个尺度下，对中心地理论进行消费地理的解读和新阐释，并建构空间消费的一般性分析框架。

During the past 30 years, with the coming of the deepening of globalization and consumerism, the new cultural landscapes in many cities emerge in an endless stream. The new urban cultural spaces whether it is being portrayed as a stage to lead a modern innovation trend, or be challenged as a testing ground of foreign designers, irrefutable change the structure of the city. What force has reinforced this trend and to promote such things recurring? And, Is our public consumption also a participatory reconstruction? The project will be based on the constructivism and humanism methodology, quoted the Actor-Network Theory, the Production of Space Theory and Symbolic Consumption Theory. Choosing the cities of Beijing, Guangzhou, Urumqi and Lhasa, we would analyze the mechanism of construction and consumption of the new cultural space. On this basis, we try to explore the relationship between culture, consumption and the distribution of central place,and reinterpret Central Place Theory in perspective of consumption geography in the scale of the urban system and urban space, construct the general analytical framework of consumption of space.