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Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014 AbstractIn recent years the study of urban toponymy (place names) has been revitalized by the emergence of a ‘critical toponymies' approach. This focuses on the cultural politics of place naming and the decisions involved in attributing names to the urban landscape.
Young, C, Light, D
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Toponymy and the City, the Past and the Future [PDF]
Проект Байкал, 2015 The article reviews and analyses the concepts of toponymy, basing on the exchange of ideas between the members of the Toponymy Council and the Editorial Board of the journal. The names of the new urban entities of Irkutsk are proposed.
Marina Tkacheva
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Assembling “Japantown”? A critical toponymy of urban dispossession in Vancouver, Canada [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2017 Geographic scholarship in critical toponymy has highlighted the importance of place naming as a form of discursive power within processes of urbanization. This paper builds on such literature and advances a novel theory of toponymic assemblage to interpret findings from a participatory research project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada.
Cho, Hayne +3 more
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Social Toponymy of Urban Ecotourism to Inventory Potential Tourism in Dolly Based on WebGIS
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2017 Before closed, Dolly is the largest localization area in Southeast Asia, located in Surabaya, East Java. After closing in 2014, to change Dolly into a region that has a positive image, the government of Surabaya City plans to develop Dolly becomes an Urban Ecotourism area. To support the program, various training activities have been conducted.
B M Sukojo, A K Asri, C A Swastyastu
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Athayde S +8 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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Erzincan’ın Şehirsel Toponimisi ve Şehir Kimliği Üzerindeki Etkisi
Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023 Adlandırma, insanoğlunun bir kişiyi, nesneyi ya da yeri bir başkasından ayırt etmek için kullandığı bir araçtır. Bununla birlikte özellikle yer adları, bunun çok daha ötesinde bir anlam ifade etmektedir.
Halil İbrahim Dönmez, Fatih Orhan
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Urban Toponymy in Denmark and Scandinavia
Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 2002 exaly +2 more sources
Reflection of Territorial Identity in the Toponymic Landscape of Small Ural Towns
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The paper discusses specific manifestations of territorial identity in urban toponymy. The authors consider the role of the cultural landscape in the formation, maintenance and transformation of territorial identity and the importance of the toponymic ...
Marina V. Golomidova +1 more
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Geographia Polonica, 2020 Naming and renaming of urban space often is sensitive in terms of the street location and status and implies categorization of streets according to the perceived importance of a street name.
Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Victoria Glybovets
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