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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

Acta onomastica
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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Erzincan's Urban Toponymy and Its Effect On City Identity

2023
Humanity uses naming as a tool to distinguish between individuals, things, and geographic locations. Place names, in particular, play a different importance in this context. Humanity desires the names they give places to reflect the place, its culture, and themselves. Place names are regarded in this context as reflecting society.
ORHAN, Fatih, DÖNMEZ, Halil İbrahim
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Urban Toponymy as the Reflection of Social and Political Reality

2006
The presentation is about naming and renaming street names in Croatian towns due to socio- political changes. Both main principles and legislative regulations as crucial factors in (re)naimng process are being emphasized, as well as few the most distinctive examples of those processes.
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Geographic Patterns of Desovietization of Toponymy in Russian Cities

Regional Research of Russia, 2021
K E Aksenov
exaly  

Urban Toponymy: Quarters Names in Balıkesir Province, a Classification Essay

2013
İnsanoğlu yaşadığı ortamın çeşitli özelliklerini adlandırmıştır. Adlandırma mekâna hâkim olmanın, onu tanımanın veya onunla çok yönlü ilişki kurmanın dışa vurumudur. Bu makalede mahalle adları şehirsel yer adları bağlamında Balıkesir ili ölçeğinde çalışılmıştır.
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THE SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS TOPONYMY: THE CASE OF MAPUCHE TOPONYMY IN CHILEAN NORPATAGONIA

Geographical Review, 2022
Wladimir Riquelme Maulen
exaly