Based on the analysis of the tendency of urban cultural strategies and their spatial effects,the paper takes Nanjing,the province capital city of Jiangsu,which is a famous historic cultural city as well as a heavy industry base,as the case to explore the urban cultural strategies it had been taking and how do they influence on the urban spatial structure.The paper found that the cultural strategies of Nanjing had been turned from social-cultural oriented to economic oriented,from culture and heritage protec...