Street names (odonyms) and their academic study constitute an important part of onomastic
research. This paper takes stock of the growing literature on street naming processes and …

Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation
inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic …

What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

The gender relations of power embedded within the urban landscape and materialized in
street nomenclature remain an underexplored topic in place-name studies. This paper …

Extant scholarship on football stadium names is almost exclusively restricted to discussing
naming rights deals as expressions of toponymic commodification. Departing from this rather …

This paper uses text analysis to measure gender bias in cities through the use of street
names. Focusing on the case of Spain, we collect data on 15 million street names to analyze …

Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street
names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective …

Political geographers and sociologists working in the field of critical toponymies have
demonstrated that renaming the streetscape follows invariably after a regime change …

The topic of this paper is the ideological perspective on the names of city streets in a post-
socialist context. Studies of post-socialist cities have indicated that the symbolic …

While it is commonly accepted that forgetting may serve to accomplish worthwhile goals,
relevant social technologies require detailed analysis. We examined the literature on the …