How the old streets got their names
Subtitle: a cultural history of Bucharest
By: Alexandru Ofrim
Publisher: E.M.E.
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cortil-Wodon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9782806637680
Subjects: Street names; Anthropology; Linguistics
Other titles: Cultural history of Bucharest
Description: Street names are seen as repositories of collective representations from different historical periods. By using the interdisciplinary approach of the cultural history, as meeting point for history, anthropology, geography, linguistics, and literary history, it is possible to collect echoes from long-forgotten times, and to link the current urban structure of Bucharest with the old shape of the city. The urban nomenclature of old streets has a symbolic dimension embedded in the urban imaginary
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248)