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Commemorative Urban Practices and Gender Equality: The Case of Santiago de Compostela City’s Urban Toponymy

, 2018
For centuries, decision-making procedures in commemorative urban practices have established a methodology of recognition relying on an androcentric process which has implied closing and exclusion mechanisms. Structures of economic and cultural dominating
Novas Ferradás, María
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The space-time compression on indigenous toponymy: the case of mapuche toponymy in Chilean Norpatagonia

, 2022
The classic approach to research on toponymy is limited to a linguistic focus. This reductionism has had a negative impact on the study of the toponymy of intercultural and indigenous territories, as in the case of the northern Patagonia.
Riquelme Maulén, Wladimir Esteban, Salazar Preece, Gonzalo   +1 more
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Forms of perpetuating the historical memory of the Heroes of the Soviet Union in urban toponymy (using the example of commissar Moskovsky Street in Tambov)

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The activities of the Tambov city authorities, public organizations and institutions, their motives in the work on the preservation of military historical memory in the urban enviro nment during the second half of the 20th – beginning of the ...
S. S. Kvadiaev
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Giving name to streets, giving streets to names. Organising urban space following toponymy practices

Tecnoscienza, 2011
The article investigates the practices of giving names to streets. It looks at the city as an expanded laboratory and tackles urban issues following the performative action of names.
Claudio Coletta
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Multicultural Features in Scandinavian Toponymy

, 2021
In central parts of Scandinavia, place names are basically always formed from linguistic elements of Scandinavian origin. In bilingual Finland, names are of Finnish or Swedish origin. There are, however, exceptions to this uniform picture.
Staffan Nyström, Nyström, Staffan,
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Comparative Analysis of Sino-Western Critical Toponymy Research Trajectories and the Construction of a Chinese Localization Research Framework

Redai dili
As the spatial mnemonics of human civilization, place names transcend their basic function as geographical identifiers to embody historical narratives, cultural genes, and societal values. Within the contemporary context of globalization and urbanization,
Xiaomei Ji
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Acteurs et enjeux de la néotoponymie des territoires ethniques des grandes métropoles aux Etats-Unis : l’exemple de Miami

L'Espace Politique, 2008
This reflection presents a diatopic approach which conceptualizes place as the result of contradictory forces identifiable at different geographic levels of analysis, from the global to the local scope. Contemporary immigration in the U.S. has profoundly
Cédric Audebert
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BALIKESİR’DE ŞEHİRSEL TOPONİMİ: CADDE ADLARI Urban Toponymy in Balıkesir: Street Names

Doğu Coğrafya Dergisi, 2014
800x600 Oz Cadde, yol ve bulvarlar kimlikten yoksun degildir. Onlar gecmis deneyimleri ve ideolojik tavirlari icinde saklayan bellek mekânlardir. Sembolik olarak cevreye anlam verme sureci olan adlandirma ile bu tavir ve deneyimler okunabilmektedir. Bu calismada sehirsel toponimi olarak tanimlanabilecek cadde adlari Balikesir sehrinde ele alinmaktadir.
ALİAĞAOĞLU, Alpaslan, YİĞİT, Yücel   +1 more
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Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Rusu MS.
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Urban space diversity in Doha [PDF]

, 2012
Cities have always been highly differentiated places expressive of heterogeneity, a diversity of activities, entertainment, excitement, and pleasure. They have been and still are the melting pots for formulating and experimenting with new philosophies ...
Salama, Ashraf M.
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