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Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment [PDF]
Urban Science, 2020 This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official “index”, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on ...
Liora Bigon
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Key Challenges in Geography, 2023 “Man [or object] does not exist unless he has a name. It must be named to exist” (Tesone, 2013: 73). Names are studied by different sciences. The act of naming is the bearer of meanings, and naming is the subject of urban toponymy. Cities consist of several levels of names. Urban toponymy addresses place names, such as street, square, park, school, and
Alpaslan Aliağaoğlu
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Decommunization of urban toponymy in Ukraine: causes and consequences
Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2020 The decommunization in Ukraine took place differently than in other post-communist countries. For many years after the collapse of the USSR, Ukrainian society tolerated the post-communist remnants.
Aleksander Kuczabski , Alina Boychuk
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Urban Toponymy as a Means of Manifesting Regional Identity: The Case of Ufa City
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The paper deals with the representation of regional identity in urban toponymy. The author focuses on the role of municipal toponymic policy in the manifestation and construction of a new regional identity. It is found that the efficiency of local policy
Marina V. Golomidova
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Urban Toponymy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus: A Classification Assa
Eastern Geographical Review, 2023 Cities are multifunctional central settlements that are man-made, where the space is designed by human hands and where many people live together, mostly carrying human feelings. Everything has a meaning in this built environment. Buildings are the most important element of this built environment. They have individual names and meanings.
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Critical Toponymy: Creating Prestigious Spaces Through Using Urban Names
Megaron, 2019 Place names are important for memory and identity and were researched by many kind of social sciences as history, anthropology, human geography, linguistic.
Reycan Çetin, Aylin Şentürk
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Urban Science, 2020 Toponyms, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy was epitomized by the British, who applied it in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya from the late 1800s.
Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, Frédéric Giraut
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Literator, 2018 This article focuses on the characterisation of S’ncamtho toponyms in Bulawayo and it goes on to measure the impact of these toponyms on the population of Bulawayo dwellers.
Sambulo Ndlovu
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Sequent Occupance and Toponymy in Singapore: The Diachronic and Synchronic Development of Urban Place Names [PDF]
Urban Science, 2019 This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order to describe the current cultural landscape of a region as a combination of all the people which have ‘sequentially’ occupied ...
Francesco Cavallaro +2 more
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Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2023 The article studies the spatial semantics of Yakutsk’s urban text (Sakha/Yakutia, Russia) as a component of the cultural landscape. The research is based on the theoretical approaches of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, scholarly traditions of post-
Olga Lavrenova +2 more
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