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Modeling Toponymic Change: A Multilevel Analysis of Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania

Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Mihai S Rusu
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Local struggles, global issues: The role of race and belonging within street renaming struggles in Berlin’s Wedding district

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City
Since 2004 there has been a debate surrounding two streets and a square in Berlin’s Wedding district that bear the names of perpetrators of German colonialism: should the streets be renamed or simply be rededicated to other German men bearing the same ...
Christy Kulz, Christine Barwick
exaly   +2 more sources

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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Renaming of Geographical Places and Streets in Slovenia 1945-1955

Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino, 1996
Spreminjanje krajevnih in uličnih imen je eno izmed vidnejših zunanjih obeležij zamenjave oblasti leta 1945 na Slovenskem. Pred 2. svetovno vojno je precej imen izhajalo iz krščanske tradicije in nosilo imena svetnikov, redov ali cerkva, krajevna imena so bila deloma še nemška, ulice pa so nosile tudi imena nekdanjih političnih veljakov.
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Renaming Capital Street: Competing Visions of the Past in Post‐Communist Warsaw

City & 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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Street renaming as cultural resistance: decommunization and identity in rural Ukrainian settlements

Research for Rural Development
This study examines the renaming of streets in rural communities of Ukraine, which represents one of the essential aspects of the decommunization process initiated by a series of 2015 laws banning the use of communist and National Socialist totalitarian regime symbols. Henri Lefebvreʼs theory of the production of space is employed to analyze how street
Yaroslav Burdin, Svitlana Salnikova, Mykola Sydorov   +2 more
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The politics of renaming "colonial" streets in Francistown, Botswana

2014
Francistown is located in the North East district (part of the former Tati district) in Botswana. It was "founded" in 1897 by Daniel Francis, an English prospector and the first director of the Tati Concessions (today called the Tati Company). The Tati Concessions administered the Tati district like a colony within a protectorate after annexing and ...
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