郭嵩焘的域外游记以大量篇幅记述了西方国家的方方面面,其中对欧洲城市书写最有特色,涉及到人文景观、地标建筑、文化设施、市民生活等,展现出19世纪中后期工业革命后欧洲城市的生活图景。以城市学的视角在跨文化的视野下去观照郭嵩焘的游记,对于了解西方城市文化的风貌和晚清知识分子心态的转变,无疑具有一定的文化价值和现实意义。 Guo Songtao’s extraterritorial travels devoted a great deal of space to describing all aspects of Western countries. Among them, writing to European cities is most characteristic, involving cultural landscapes, landmark buildings, cultural facilities and civic life, showing that the European cities in the mid- and late-post-industrial revolution of the 19th century Life picture. Taking Guo Songtao’s travelogue from the perspective of urban science from a cross-cultural perspective, it is undoubtedly of cultural value and practical significance for understanding the style of western urban culture and the change of mentality of intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty.