This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a
comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and …

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

The gendered patterning of urban street names as part of the spatial production of broader
male-centric memorial landscapes has been documented in a growing body of scholarship …

Looking theoretically at regions as historically contingent entities that have been evolving
over time, this article aims to explore the relationship between the identities of old regions …

Street names are omnipresent but hold an often-overlooked symbolic function of
representing societal power balances, rendering women largely invisible. With this …

This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name
changes in Leipzig, a city in eastern Germany, over the past one-hundred years. Our …

This paper introduces a new web app to visualize the spatial distribution of street names and
download the underlying dataset. First, we motivate the relevance of street-name data for …

It has been said many times before, a picture is worth a thousand words, recently by our own
coeditors in this very journal (Crooks and See, 2022). This truism applies not only to the …

Street names constitute a rich source of data for quantitative analysis in social sciences. We
gather and process street-name data from OpenStreetMap to create an accessible and …

This article examines the issue of gender (im) balance in street and roundabout names in
Poland's three largest cities: Warsaw, Kraków, and Łódź. The focus of this research falls …