Street Naming and Shoah-Remembrance

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Maoz Azaryahu
Keyword(s):  
Street Naming

Urban planning, colonial doctrines and street naming in French Dakar and British Lagos, c. 1850–1930

Urban History ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIORA BIGON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Indirect Rule

ABSTRACT:The published literature that has thoroughly treated the history of European planning in sub-Saharan Africa is still rather scanty. This article examines French and British colonial policies for town planning and street naming in Dakar and Lagos, their chief lieux de colonisation in West Africa. It will trace the relationships between the physical and conceptual aspects of town planning and the colonial doctrines that produced these plans from the official establishment of these cities as colonial capitals in the mid-nineteenth century and up to the inter-war period. Whereas in Dakar these aspects reflected a Eurocentric meta-narrative that excluded African histories and identities, a glimpse at contemporary Lagos shows the opposite. This study is one of few that compares colonial doctrines of assimilation to doctrines of indirect rule as each affects urban planning.

scholarly journals Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City

Asian Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenchuan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Place Names ◽  
World War ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
Nationalist Government

Taiwan has been ruled by a variety of political regimes and the different ruling elites have used Taiwan’s place names to shape their symbolic landscape. The end of World War Two witnessed the most tremendous change of place names in Taiwan when the Chinese Nationalist government or Kuomintang (KMT) established itself on the island. The traditional approach to toponymy mainly treats place names as the objective projection of culture on the physical landscape. However, recent research has turned to borrow concepts from critical theories to explore the expression of power inherent in geographical naming. This article will consider place naming as the illustration of state power on its symbolic landscape by examining all the street names in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan.

scholarly journals Assessment of Road Rehabilitation in Ibadan, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Adewale Yoade ◽  
Samson Olaitan Olanrewaju ◽  
Sesan Adeniyi Adeyemi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
North East ◽  
Reconnaissance Survey ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Urban Renewal Programme ◽  
Ibadan Nigeria

The study examined road rehabilitation in Ibadan North East Local Government of Oyo State, Nigeria. The data used in this study was obtained from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data was obtained through a reconnaissance survey and administration of the questionnaire. The reconnaissance survey is appropriate to establish the nature of an environment, event or situation before making decisions. The population for this study consists of all the residents available in Ibadan north local government. Both descriptive and thematic content analysis was employed in the analysis. Findings showed that rehabilitation (3.33) is the most desirable facility in the study area. Construction, maintenance, traffic management capacity building and street naming followed with 3.01, 2.56, 2.42, 2.28 and 2.12, respectively. The study concluded that compensation is an important factor that can enhance sustainable urban renewal programme, and therefore resident whose building was affected are to be compensated so that they could secure a better place for living or for their transaction. 

scholarly journals LATAR BELAKANG ASPEK KEHIDUPAN PADA SISTEM PENAMAAN JALAN DI KOTA YOGYAKARTA: KAJIAN ANTROPOLINGUISTIK

LITERA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Prihadi Prihadi ◽  
Ari Listiyorini
Keyword(s):  
Historical Aspect ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
The Road ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Origin Function ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
The City ◽  
Special Region

Penelitian mengenai onomastika telah beberapa kali dilakukan. Lewat penelitian onomastika dapat dijelaskan penggunaan aspek kebahasaan dan aspek lain seperti sejarah dan budaya, kehidupan, motivasi, serta alasan motivasi dan tujuan penamaan tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan aspek kehidupan pada sistem penamaan jalan di Yogyakarta sebagai bagian dari keistimewaan Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian deskriptif. Penelitian dibatasi pada Kota Yogyakarta yang memiliki data nama jalan secara formal. Data berupa nama-nama jalan. Sumber data berupa sumber data tertulis dan lisan. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan observasi, wawancara, dan pencatatan. Analisis data dengan kultural-historis. Validasi dilakukan dengan triangulasi data dan metode. Penelitian menemukan 26 aspek kehidupan yang selanjutnya dapat dikelompokkan menjadi 9 aspek kehidupan. Aspek-aspek tersebut meliputi aspek tumbuhan dan binatang, aspek tempat (asal-usul tempat, fungsi tempat, penanda tempat, dan arah tempat), aspek yang berhubungan dengan keraton (kerabat keraton, prajurit keraton, tempat tinggal pegawai keraton, senjata perang), aspek geografis (ciri-ciri geografis, gunung/sungai, dan fenomena alam), aspek profesi, aspek pahlawan dan tokoh, aspek harapan dan cita-cita, aspek nama wayang, dan aspek lainnya (aktivitas kerja, karakter, dan sifat). Kata kunci: nama jalan, aspek kehidupan, kultural-historis BACKGROUNDS OF THE LIFE ASPECTS ON THE ROAD NAMING SYSTEM IN YOGYAKARTA CITY: ANTHROPOLINGUISTIC STUDYAbstract              Research on onomastics has been conducted a number of times. Through onomastic research, road naming can be described in terms of the linguistic and other aspects such as history and culture, ways of life, and motives and objectives. This study is aimed at describing the aspects of life in the street naming system in Yogyakarta as part of the special features of the Yogyakarta Special Region. This study uses the descriptive research design. The research location in Yogyakarta is limited to the city of Yogyakarta which has formal road name data. Data are in the form of street names in the study location. Data sources are written and oral. Data collection techniques are observation, interview, and recording. Data analysis is cultural-historical. Validation is done by data and method triangulations. Results show 26 aspects of life grouped into 9. These aspects are related to plants and animals, places (origin, function, marker, and direction), palaces (family kinship, soldier troop, official residence, and war weapon), geography (feature, mountain/river, and natural phenomena), profession, hero and figure, hope and ideal, wayang figure, and other (work activity, character, and nature). Keywords: street names, aspects of life, cultural-historical aspect

scholarly journals Cultural representation in Luxembourgish street naming practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Purschke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
World War ◽  
Rural Municipality ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Naming Practices

Abstract This paper investigates street naming practices in Luxembourg. Starting from a theoretical sketch of how the curation of a given cityscape by dint of cultural artifacts (e.g., street names) establishes complex orders of cultural representation, it discusses three case studies for street naming campaigns from Luxembourg. These case studies represent different types of action modes, ideological motives and linguistic materials involved in street naming. First, the naming process for a newly established neighborhood in Luxembourg City illustrates the default mode of street naming by administrative action. Second, the Germanization of Luxembourg City under German occupation during World War II demonstrates the forced alignment of a given cityscape through political octroi. And third, the recent first naming of preexisting streets in the rural municipality of Wincrange provides an example of a participatory naming process that establishes an order of cultural representation based on local traditions.

Renaming the past in post-Nazi Germany: insights into the politics of street naming in Mannheim and Potsdam

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maoz Azaryahu
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Critical Turn ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
German Cities ◽  
Oriented Approach

The critical turn in the study of toponymy has drawn attention to the politics of place-naming practices and to how place names are embedded into systems of meaning and partake in social and ideological discourses. A measure of historical revision, the commemorative renaming of streets in the context of regime change is a common strategy employed to signify the break with the past. This article juxtaposes patterns of renaming the past in two German cities from 1945 through 1950 as an aspect of the democratic reconstruction of post-Nazi Germany. The moderate pattern applied in Mannheim represented a restorative approach and signified continuity with the pre-1933 Weimar Republic. The radical pattern applied in communist-controlled Potsdam represented the future-oriented approach of socialist transformation. At one level, the investigation explores patterns of commemorative renaming of streets in two German provincial cities after the collapse of Nazi Germany. At another, the juxtaposition of two patterns of renaming the past in post-Nazi Germany offers insights into large-scale renaming of streets as a ritual of revolution that, involving different interests and priorities introduces major political shifts and the ideological reorientation of society they entail into urban namescapes.

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