在城市中，城市雕塑在现代景观设计中的要素性质不断提升，它必须与一个城市的历史、城市文化、城市性质有机融合，以此烘托、展示城市历史、城市文化和城市精神。这样，城市雕塑必须承担起社会的责任和道德，要把城市雕塑建设作为一个系统工程，纳入城市总体规划之中。
城市雕塑是艺术家的创作，更是艺术家对城市的人文领悟。城市雕塑创作的成功与否已不仅是创作者的艺术观和技法表现问题，面对越来越狭小的城市空间，城市开发进程中给自然带来的危机，人们希望通过艺术家创作不同风格的雕塑，以此平衡自身与城市随时变化的关系。同时通过公共艺术潜移默化的精神感染来提高公众的文化意识、公共意识。良好的城市形象代表了良好的公众形象，这正是城市人个体形象的综合展现。
城市雕塑是公共艺术中的一个内容，但城市雕塑不仅是一个景观物，随着人们对于环境要求的日益提升，城市雕塑在与环境关系的公共性方面的要求也会越来越高，但是同样，现代社会随着人们对于精神与文化归属感需求的不断提高，城市雕塑在文化方面的公共性要求也在日益提高。深圳“开荒牛”雕塑在中国民众的心目中绝不仅仅是一个景观物的概念，它更是中国改革开放，深圳开拓精神的文化象征。
所以，城市雕塑所具有的文化性、精神性的内涵是一般景观物无法取代的，它不是公共空间中的一个空洞的景观物，也不是一个简单的装饰概念，而是具有人文性、文化性并与城市中的人们同呼吸、共命运的具有生命的载体与标志。在城市中，城市雕塑作为供人欣赏和直接体验的公共艺术作品，要考虑到受众主体的文化层次和审美诉求，所以城市雕塑的表现内容应该不拘一格，兼容并蓄。
In the city, the nature of urban sculpture in modern landscape design is constantly improving. It must be organically integrated with the history, culture and nature of a city, so as to set off and display the history, culture and spirit of the city. In this way, urban sculpture must bear the social responsibility and morality, and take the construction of urban sculpture as a systematic project into the overall urban planning.
Urban sculpture is not only the creation of artists, but also the artist's humanistic understanding of the city. The success of urban sculpture creation is not only a matter of the artist's artistic view and technical expression. Facing the increasingly narrow urban space and the crisis brought to nature in the process of urban development, people hope to create sculptures of different styles by artists, so as to balance the relationship between themselves and the city at any time. At the same time, through the subtle spiritual infection of public art, we can improve the public cultural awareness and public awareness. A good city image represents a good public image, which is the comprehensive display of the individual image of city people.
Urban sculpture is one of the contents of public art, but urban sculpture is not only a landscape. With the increasing demand for the environment, the public requirements of urban sculpture in the relationship with the environment will be higher and higher, but also, in modern society, with the continuous improvement of people's demand for spiritual and cultural sense of belonging, urban sculpture in cultural publicity Demands are also increasing. In the eyes of the Chinese people, the sculpture of "pioneering cattle" in Shenzhen is not only a concept of landscape, but also a cultural symbol of China's reform and opening up and Shenzhen's pioneering spirit.
Therefore, it is not the same concept of urban landscape and cultural landscape that can not be replaced by the common concept of urban landscape and cultural landscape, but also has the same connotation of urban culture. In the city, urban sculpture, as a public art work for people to appreciate and experience directly, should take into account the cultural level and aesthetic appeal of the audience, so the performance content of urban sculpture should not be rigid and inclusive.
