"Some of the items listed in sections I and II are marked as being available in the New York Public Library (NYPL) ; Municipal Reference Library of New York City (MRL-NYC) ; and the Library of Congress (LofC), together with the class marks."--Page I.
This report discusses the pros and cons of implementing a uniform street-naming and house-numbering system. It also addresses how to implement the system and the possible legal aspects.
Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them. With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.