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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes - Naming, Politics, and Place (Paperback)
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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes - Naming, Politics, and Place (Paperback)
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Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday
urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles
over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of
urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has
played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both
historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and
remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key
strategies that different political regimes have employed to
legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological
hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich
body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban
toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of
geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and
political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an
urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies
from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia,
the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of
streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial
imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.
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