In the process of economic globalization and economic-cultural integration, the social and cultural elements have made a great gradual impact on economic activities. By analyzing the social and cultural elements on urban management and urban competition, this paper puts forward that we should put more attention to the management of social and cultural elements and analyzes the meaning of social-cultural turn in urban management.
From five aspects, the paper analyzes the meaning of social-cultural turn in urban management, which is the requirement of cultural competition, the requirement of the economic competition, the requirement of the adjustment of urban industry structure, the requirement of deepening the reform and of improving the consisting structure of urban competition in China. From the viewpoint of cultural structure, it includes many aspects of cultural components; from the viewpoint of the main body of urban management, it includes four kinds of social-cultural elements, such as urban government, enterprise, residents and the organization of industry and residents; from the viewpoint of the economic functional system and time-space characteristics affected by social-cultural elements, it include social-cultural element and process that make an influence on the forming, developing and expanding of urban economic system.
Based on the analysis above, the author analyzed the main point of social-cultural facts in urban management. It includes several aspects:quality of citizens, enterprise cultural, regulation cultural of government and behavior cultural, in habiting environment, urban image and cultural industry. The paper also makes a specific analysis on every aspect.