Abstract: Guided by the ‘co-construction, co-governance and sharing' governance strategy, urban community building has become a key path for grassroots governance transformation. This paper uses CiteSpace to conduct visual analysis on Chinese and English core literature published from 2014 to 2025. The research identifies four interrelated themes in the field: physical space transformation, interpersonal network reconstruction, technological intervention, governance model innovation. The evolutionary trajectory shows a gradual deepening process: it shifts from spatial governance to collaborative governance, and further moves toward smart empowerment and resilience building. Comparative analysis finds that international research focuses on gentrification criticism and resilient governance, while domestic research is rooted in local contexts such as ‘Party building leadership' and ‘micro-regeneration'. In view of current challenges including fragmented multi-stakeholder collaboration and overexpansion of technical rationality at the expense of humanistic values, future research should transcend the single disciplinary perspective: activate social capital to build collaborative networks, reshape smart communities based on humancentered ethics, connect macro policies with micro practices to improve urban resilience, and construct a local theoretical framework that can carry out international dialogue, so as to provide theoretical support for grassroots governance in Chinese modernization.