The historical culture, landscape culture, and industrial culture of modern cities have been translated through the capital translation of cultural industries to form cultural products and cultural needs that cater to consumer needs. From the perspective of Baudrillard's "Critique of Political Economy of Signs", he analyzes the product output of urban cultural short videos, and demonstrates the positive correlation between urban cultural production and output and urban economic and social development through a linear regression model. At the same time, it is pointed out that it is necessary to guard against the excessive modeling output of capital to intangible culture, pay attention to improving the soft power of urban competition culture, and pay attention to the unique role of urban culture in urban development.