By Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu

ISBN-10: 1472475097

ISBN-13: 9781472475091

Streetscapes are a part of the taken-for-granted areas of daily city lifestyles, but also they are contested arenas during which struggles over id, reminiscence, and position form the social creation of city house. This booklet examines the function that road naming has performed within the political lifetime of city streetscapes in either historic and modern towns. The renaming of streets and remaking of city commemorative landscapes have lengthy been key ideas that diverse political regimes have hired to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic strength. over the last few a long time, a wealthy physique of severe scholarship has explored the politics of city toponymy, and the current assortment brings jointly the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to ascertain the ability of road naming as an city place-making perform. protecting quite a lot of case stories from towns in Europe, North the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this quantity illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of city spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

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