Urban Place Names: Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions

Dear Colleagues,

The proposed Special Issue of Urban Science aims to contribute to the vigorous field of urban studies by exploring modern city landscapes through the prism of the interdisciplinary field of toponymy. The main goal is to bring together contemporary urban toponymic studies scholarship, both from the traditional onomastic perspective and the recently emerged critical toponymy perspective, to examine new areas of spatial relationships between people, language, culture, urban landscapes, development, and political power in different regions of the world. The original research papers and systematic critical reviews that reflect the theoretical development, contemporary condition, and future challenges of urban place names studies from various disciplinary perspectives will be welcomed.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following themes:

• globalization and transformation of urban toponymic systems;
• urban place naming as a political tool;
• place names and urban culture;
• vernacular urban place names and community everyday life;
• new trends in urban place naming and contemporary toponymic practices;
• typology of modern urban place names;
• tourism and commodification of urban toponymic landscape;
• urban place names as markers of gentrification;
• toponymic systems of suburbs;
• place names and place making;
• GIS and urban toponymic studies

Dr. Sergei Basik
Guest Editor

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