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Renaming Capital Street: Competing Visions of the Past in Post-Communist Warsaw

City and Society, 1998
Efforts to create a memorial to a priest murdered for his activities in Solidarity targeted one of the oldest streets in the Warsaw neighborhood of Zoliborz for renaming. Tensions rose as the post‐war generation strove to fix its heroes in Polish social memory while some older residents sought to retain a sense of continuity in a city largely destroyed
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The Renaming of Berlin Street and Berlin Streets

American Speech, 1951
John T Krümpelmann
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Renaming the Streets

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
In his third volume of poetry, John Stone continues refining his earlier experiments with the carefully structured and casually, but artfully, understated poem. As one would expect, this professor of emergency medicine at Emory University writes about medicine, but also finds inspiration in the art of Edward Hopper and Leonardo da Vinci, fishing ...
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Modeling Toponymic Change: A Multilevel Analysis of Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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Chapter 2. Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania: A Quantitative Analysis of Toponymic Change

2023
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INFLUENCES OF RENAMING STREETS ON URBAN MEMORY: THE CASE OF TURKEY

2016
Streets are the main arteries that provide common living ground, connect functions to each other and form society’s structure. They are places where everybody in the city can spend their time, socialize and fulfil their daily needs without making any efforts. Streets, which form the structure of the societies are memorial places hiding past experiences
Ayatac, Hatice, Araz, Selime
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Between Grassroots Pressure and Local Polycracy: Street Renaming in Nazi Berlin

German History, 2022
Abstract The names of Berlin’s streets have attracted scrutiny throughout the twentieth century. When regimes collapsed and their pantheons of heroes fell into disrepute, some city streets named after individuals had to be changed: streets honouring republican luminaries no longer seemed appropriate during the Third Reich; militaristic ...
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Renaming of Hamburg Streets under National Socialism: Hallerstraße

2016
This photo was published in the newspaper Hamburger Anzeiger on November 1st, 1938. It shows an older man in work clothes and peaked cap with a street sign reading “Hallerstrasse,” which he has just removed, tucked under his left arm. He is looking at the new sign reading “Ostmarkstrasse” he has just mounted and also at the new designation of the ...
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Perceptions of commemorative street renaming: A case study of Newtown Cultural Precinct, South Africa

Himalayan Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2023
The use of heritage-led urban development to promote sustainable urban regeneration through place making, preservation of urban identity, promoting tourism and nurturing creative economic development is growing. Street naming is considered to be heritage preservation in South African urban development. Whilst most studies have investigated name origins,
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The main street of Tver’: the history of renaming in the context of ur-ban-building and socio-cultural

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2022
Like any city, Tver’ has its own main street, and given the fact that the time of the foundation-capital of the Upper Volga goes into the Middle Ages, and the formation of its main urban «highway» took place several centuries ago. This street existed during the period of the independent Tver’ Principality, but the earliest documentary evidence of it ...
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