The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place

ISBN-13: 9781472475091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 334 str.

Reuben Rose-Redwood; Derek Alderman; Maoz Azaryahu

Opis

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..

Recenzje

"Themes across this edited collection include the legacy of colonial and postcolonial naming practices (as in Southeast Asia and South Africa), the use of street naming to stoke nationalism (as in postsocialist Europe), and the way street names intersect with racial, gender, and class identities (as in the identity-conscious US). These chapters make it abundantly clear that urban street naming is often a political process, rather than an innocently commemorative or descriptive exercise." - Christine Ro, Environment & Urbanization Journal

Spis treści

1. The Urban Streetscape as Political Cosmos 2. Reading Street Names Politically: A Second Reading 3. Colonial Urban Order, Cultural Politics, and the Naming of Streets in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Singapore 4. Revisiting East Berlin and Haifa: A Comparative Perspective on Renaming the Past 5. "Armed with an Encyclopedia and an Axe": The Socialist and Post-Socialist Street Toponymy of East Berlin Revisited Through Gramsci 6. Building a New City Through a New Discourse: Street Naming Revolutions in Budapest 7. Locating the Geopolitics of Memory in the Polish Streetscape 8. Toponymic Changes as Temporal Boundary-Making: Street Renaming in Leningrad/St. Petersburg 9. The Spatial Codification of Values in Zagreb’s City-Text 10. Nationalizing the Streetscape: The Case of Street Renaming in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina 11. The Politics of Toponymic Continuity: The Limits of Change and the Ongoing Lives of Street Names 12. Toponymic Complexities in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Informative and Symbolic Aspects from Past to Present 13. Coloring "Rainbow" Streets: The Struggle for Toponymic Multiracialism in Urban Post-Apartheid South Africa 14. Street Renaming, Symbolic Capital, and Resistance in Durban, South Africa 15. Street Naming and the Politics of Belonging: Spatial Injustices in the Toponymic Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. 16. From Number to Name: Symbolic Capital, Places of Memory, and the Politics of Street Renaming in New York City 17. Toponymic Checksum or Flotsam? Recalculating Dubai’s Grid with Makani, "the Smartest Map in the World" 18. Contemporary Issues and Future Horizons of Critical Urban Toponymy