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PLoS ONE, 2021 Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations.
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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Gender aspects of public urban space: Analysis of the names of Belgrade streets [PDF]
Sociologija, 2014 The street city network and the street names represent structural public symbolic system which is characterized by readability. This readability gives identity; the city is clearly divided in significant and less significant zones used for ...
Sekulić Nada
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Institutions, stakeholders and the city in the 2010s renaming policy in Russia
Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2020 The article presents an overview of the renaming tendencies in Russia of the 2010s and the main stakeholders of the name changing. On the base of the administration websites, online media petitions and other open sources, three cases are examined in ...
Nikita Lomakin
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Nomenclature of Chinese Street Food Names in Malaysia: A Scalar Analysis
SAGE Open, 2023 This study examines how the nomenclature of street food names includes trans-local, trans-regional, and trans-national scales in local language resources. The study adopts a qualitative case study on street food names in Malaysia.
Hongxiang Zhu +3 more
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Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part II: Constructionism and Utilitarianism
Social Change Review, 2021 As toponymic means of inscribing urban space, street names have been addressed mainly by human geographers, who have articulated the field of critical place-name studies.
Rusu Mihai Stelian
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Проект Байкал, 2023 The development concept for the eastern part of the historical centre of Chita carried out by the team of the Siberian Laboratory of Urbanistics is based on the peculiarities of the border area (genius of place) and special rare toponymy of the name of ...
Елена Григорьева
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Mátyásföld utcanevei (1889–2004)
Névtani Értesítő, 2006 Street names of Mátyásföld (1889–2004) This paper examines the changes of historical street names of Mátyásföld (a part of the capital, Budapest from 1950) in chronological order by setting up three periods. Major concern is given to the aims of
Orsolya Tóth
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Polish Cartographical Review, 2019 The authors’ main goal is to highlight the additional research potential of the method of analysing changes in the routes and names of streets introduced by Paweł E. Weszpiński in 2012.
Konopska Beata, Kowalski Dawid
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Urbane Bezeichnungen in der Stadt Busko-Zdrój während des Zweiten Weltkrieges
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2018 The urbanonyms in Busko-Zdrój during the Second World War This article is written about the results of the trends’ analysis in the names of streets in the town Busko-Zdrój during the Second World War.
Piotr A. Owsiński
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Street Names of Shanghai and Ekaterinburg: A Comparative Study [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 The paper presents the findings of a comparative study of street names (hodonyms) in Shanghai and Ekaterinburg in terms of their motivation and historical background.
Mo Li, Ekaterina S. Ryabtseva
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