The address book : what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power / Deirdre Mask.

Book

Mask, Deirdre, author.

First edition.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.

x, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Tells the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power.

Street addresses -- Social aspects.

Street names -- Social aspects.

Social classes.

Wealth.

"Portions of this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New York Times."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (273-313) and index.

Introduction: Why do street addresses matter? -- Development: Kolkata : how can street addresses transform the slums? -- Haiti : could street addresses stop an epidemic? -- Origins: Rome : how did the ancient Romans navigate? -- London : where do street names come from? -- Vienna : what can house numbers teach us about power? -- Philadelphia : why do Americans love numbered streets? -- Korea and Japan : must streets be named? -- Politics: Iran : why do street names follow revolutionaries? -- Berlin : what do Nazi street names tell us about Vergangenheitsbewältigung? -- Race: Hollywood, Florida : why can't Americans stop arguing about Confederate street names? -- St. Louis : what do Martin Luther King Jr. Streets reveal about race in America? -- South Africa : who belongs on South Africa's street signs? -- Class and status: Manhattan : how much is a street name worth? -- Homelessness : how do you live without an address? -- Conclusion: The future : are street addresses doomed?

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