Abstract：History is kept alive through cities, and cities possess unique qualities by carrying history. Building modern people-oriented cities embodies three historical dimensions: historical patience, historical context, and historical responsibility. Maintaining historical patience is an inherent requirement for taking the initiative in building modern people-oriented cities. This approach involves an objective understanding of historical processes and a systematic examination of historical missions. By integrating a strong sense of historical initiative into the development of modern people-oriented cities, it helps resolve contradictions and consolidate strength through mastering the pace of development. The continuation of historical context aims to consolidate the cultural ethos for building modern people-oriented cities, as it carries forward national cultural traditions and collective memories, nurtures cities’ unique spiritual character, and advances the progress of urban civilization. Embracing historical responsibility requires innovating practical approaches to constructing modern people-oriented cities, with people-oriented urbanization as the over-arching goal and connotative urban development as the strategic orientation, thereby exploring new pathways for urban modernization. Historical patience serves as the foundational prerequisite for cities to preserve their historical and cultural continuity; sustaining historical context provides the spiritual impetus for cities to fulfill their historical responsibilities; and undertaking historical responsibility defines the value orientation for maintaining historical patience. These three dimensions are interdependent and form an organic unity, collectively advancing urban modernization and demonstrating the civilizational significance of urban development within the context of Chinese modernization.
2026, Vol. 43 
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