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Urban Place Names: Introduction [PDF]
Urban Science, 2020 Urban place names are multidimensional phenomena [...]
Sergei Basik
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Urban land use is constantly changing via human activities. These changes are recorded by imprint data. Traditionally, urban dynamics studies focus on two-dimensional spatiotemporal analysis.
Yurong Chen +7 more
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The names of urban dispossession: a concluding commentary [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2019 This concluding commentary discusses some of the ways in which branded renaming reflects conflicts over ownership, authority, property and power. Practices of sponsored renaming and place branding are not monolithic, but this special issue shows that they are deeply rooted within neoliberal urbanism.
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Translinguality as an Explication of Appellative Character of Urban Names
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2022 Modern urban names are characterized by properties that allow them to be simultaneously attributed to a special type of mass communication, to episodes of external communication of an organization and acts of self-presentation.
Tatiana V. Poplavskaia, Alena V. Shylei
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Comparison of Naming Methods of Urban and Rural Place Names [PDF]
Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2021 Guo Jiajia, Zheng Li
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Identifying Urban Neighborhood Names through User-Contributed Online Property Listings
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 Neighborhoods are vaguely defined, localized regions that share similar characteristics. They are most often defined, delineated and named by the citizens that inhabit them rather than municipal government or commercial agencies.
Grant McKenzie +3 more
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Urban popular place names past and present
Brussels Studies, 2007 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/Sint-Jans-Molenbeek is a former village on the outskirts of Brussels that underwent a gradual process of urbanisation starting in 1800 that culminated in its becoming an integral part of the capital.
Sven Steffens
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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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“Stone” Streets of Ekaterinburg
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The paper studies a group of Ekaterinburg street names associated with “stone craft”. These would include the names directly motivated by mineralogical vocabulary (Ametistovaya St., Rodonitovaya St.) or indirectly conveying the “stone” naming motif ...
Yulia A. Krivoshchapova +1 more
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Unofficial Monumentonyms: Towards the Definition of their Onomastic Status
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The paper is devoted to unofficial names of monuments and urban sculpture, or unofficial monumentonyms. The author discusses their usage in field interviews, popular media, Internet discussions, excursions, in texts on local history, and in dictionaries.
Maria V. Akhmetova
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