“纪念碑性”和“魔性”折射出城市化历史的不同脉络，前者是权力意志的体现，后者是商业霸权的张扬。都市现代性呈现出魅化—去魅—再魅化的历史循环，日益异化为符号的幻象及其统治。“诗性都市”的建构旨在回归“城市为日常生活充当着剧院”，实现诗性与日常生活的统一，在传统城市研究之“神性”“权力”和“人性”三重维度之外，强调“诗性”对现代城市的批判与重塑作用，确立以生活世界为根基的城市哲学范式。

The “memorial style” and “mystification” demonstrate different historical trends of urbanization: the former shows the will of power while the latter commercial hegemony. The urban modernization presents a historical cycle of “mystifying-demystifying-remystifying” and is day by day alienated as the illusion of symbols and ruling by symbols. The construction of a “poetic city” aims to restore to the idea that“a city serves as a theatre for daily life”, facilitating the unity of poetry and daily life. It is to establish an urban philosophical paradigm rooted in life world by emphasizing the criticism and reconstruction of modern cities via “poetry” beyond the three dimensions of “divinity”, “power” and “humanity”.