中文摘要：

文化全球化背景下，在城市的快速转型过程中，城市文化发展和演进面临更多新要素的触动：“异质文化”日渐冲击或渗透着城市本底文化，影响城市文化发展的主要因子也更多从自然环境要素始向人文因素转变，即城市本底文化生存的“土壤”正在发生革命性改变，从而使城市文化表现出更多时代内涵、时尚意韵和新景观。本文基于国内外相关研究进展，讨论全球化背景下城市文化地理研究的新态势，以期对新时期国内文化地理学的研究有所裨益。

英文摘要：

The traditional cultural geography mainly investigates the cultures of a big region and the researches focus on five central issues： cultural landscapes, cultural ecology, cultural integration and cultural regionalization. However, within the contexts of globalization and profound urban transformation, the development of urban cultures are influenced not only by physical factors but more importantly, by socio-cultural elements such as the urban development strategy and governance mode, the economic location, the transportation, the big events, the industrial pattern, urban space reconstruction, the urban population and the concept of consumption, all of which have brought revolutionary changes to the background of urban culture. Under this circumstance, new features appear in the geographical study of urban culture. Also, the process of globalization has brought extraordinary changes to urban culture： new architecture and popular public space mixed with exotic elements are welling up, globalized lifestyles widely spread and traditional values are challenged. Therefore, it is urgent to study the forthcoming questions such as how to deal with the dilemma of foreign cultures and local traditions for the sake of the development of cities. In the western world, globalization has been a very popular narrative in academic study and cultural geography has been at the forefront of disciplines relating the experiences and consequences for thinking society and the global circumstance at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Most of the research and articles would be called post-modernization, basing argues on successive critiques with telling rich stories of Exclusion and Inclusion of differencesexualities, genders, racings, ethnicities and ages. However, in China, the culture globalization has not been a focus in culture geography yet though the function of culture capital in the urban competition has been realized. Regarding to the fact that most of the urban studies are organized from the social transformation