商品簡介
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 toponomy, and this edited collection brings together research that reconsiders 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.
作者簡介
Reuben Rose-Redwood, is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada. Derek Alderman is Professor and Department Head of the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, USA. Maoz Azaryahu is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Israel.
