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The gender gap in urban toponymy: a descriptive review of the academic literature

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Toponymy, power, and colonial urban legacies

2023
Zvinashe Mamvura, Ivan Marowa
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URBAN TOPONYMY, CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE WORLD WARS

2009
L'imaptto delle guerre mondiali sulla toponomastica urbana in Italia e il rapporto fra memoria "scritta" e memoria "visuale" (monumenti, luoghi del ricordo)
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Vatroslav Lisinski in the Urban Toponymy of Towns in the Republic of Croatia [PDF]

Glazba, umjetnosti i politika: revolucije i restauracije u Europi i Hrvatskoj 1815.-1860., 2021
Analiza urbane toponimije posljednjih je godina izašla iz okvira lingvistike te se ističe kao izvrsna sociometrijska metoda za mjerenje različitih društvenih pojava. Ona uzima imenovanje gradskih toponima kao odraz društvenih tendencija određenog područja u određenom vremenu. Isto tako, s obzirom na to da se nazivi gradskih toponima mijenjaju relativno
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Omsk as a City of Labor Glory in the Mirror of Urban Toponymy

Herald of Omsk University. Series: Historical studies, 2023
The article characterizes the urban toponymy associated with the industrial, industrial development of Omsk. The names of city streets associated with the industrial, economic, labor history of Omsk and the country as a whole are considered. The main stages in the development of the industrial toponymy of the city, as well as the factors that ...
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Street toponymy and the decolonisation of the urban landscape in post-colonial Nairobi

Journal of Cultural Geography, 2016
ABSTRACTKenya attained independence from the British in 1963 and immediately following this, the country embarked on a decolonisation process in the political, social, and economic sectors. As a result of this process, urban landscape symbols began to change.
Wanjiru, Melissa, Matsubara, Kosuke
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Contemporary issues and future horizons of critical urban toponymy

2017
This chapter examines the politics of street naming to provoke critical reflection on the political life of urban streetscapes as an opening to consider contemporary issues and future horizons of urban toponymic scholarship. Street signs are found everywhere and hence are commonplace.
Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, Maoz Azaryahu   +2 more
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Official and unofficial in urban toponymy

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The paper presents some characteristics of the official and unofficial Zagreb urbanonymy from a cultural-geographical perspective. Streets, squares, parks, riverbanks, districts, as well as administrative, military, health, educational, scientific, cultural, sports and social facilities have official names. Some also have nicknames.
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The name of Favelas: Contradictions of the urban toponymy in Rio de Janeiro

2023
Attualmente, a Rio de Janeiro, ci sono più di 760 baraccopoli. In questo lavoro, come questione centrale, vengono affrontate le contraddizioni insite nella denominazione delle favelas di Rio de Janeiro, dalle formazioni pionieristiche ai giorni nostri. Il nostro obiettivo generale è spiegare tali contraddizioni e gli obiettivi specifici sono: svelare i
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