The work aims to address the current dilemma confronting sound heritage characterized by "prioritizing material over sound, archiving over activation, and individual elements over connectivity" and explore paths for its systematic protection and innovative inheritance, thus achieving the dynamic preservation of urban cultural heritage in the Yellow River Basin through narrative design strategies. Based on the core connotation of art cities and combined with field research conducted in major cities across the Yellow River Basin, four key narrative design elements of type classification, structural framing, contextualization, and mechanism innovation are extracted. Subsequently, practical strategies are proposed, including developing river-basin-specific narrative spaces, building diversified narrative content, and forging emotionally resonant narrative scenarios. Guided by the core logic of "transforming heritage into art and art serving the city", a three-dimensional linkage model of "sound heritage - narrative design - art city" is developed. This model clarifies the adaptive relationships among the three components and yields targeted narrative design strategies. The findings of this study provide theoretical insights and practical support for the protection and revitalization of sound heritage in cities along the Yellow River Basin, and contribute to building cities that embody both cultural depth and artistic distinctiveness.