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Author Farvacque-Vitkovic, Catherine

Title Street Addressing and the Management of Cities
Published Herndon : World Bank, The, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Series Directions in development
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""1. What Is Street Addressing and Why Is It Necessary?""; ""What is street addressing?""; ""Why is street addressing necessary?""; ""2. Street Addressing Applications""; ""Street addressing and civic identity""; ""Street addressing and urban information""; ""Street addressing and support to municipal services""; ""Street addressing and tax systems""; ""Street addressing and the land tenure issue""; ""Street addressing and slum upgrading""; ""Street addressing and concessionary services""
""Street addressing and economic development""""3. Street Addressing Practices""; ""Overview of main experiences""; ""Burkina Faso""; ""Cameroon""; ""Guinea""; ""Mali""; ""Mauritania""; ""Mozambique""; ""Niger""; ""Sénégal""; ""Other projects: Benin, Rwanda, Djibouti, Togo, and C�te d�Ivoire""; ""4. Street Addressing Manual""; ""Basic assumptions""; ""Activity 1. Designing the street addressing program""; ""Activity 2. Conducting a feasibility study""; ""Activity 3. Setting up the street addressing unit""; ""Activity 4. Estimating costs and time frames for an addressing program""
""Activity 5. Defining the scope of the program""""Activity 6. Choosing a codification system""; ""Activity 7. Mapping""; ""Activity 8. Surveying and numbering doorways""; ""Activity 9. Recording addresses""; ""Activity 10. Installing street signs""; ""Activity 11. Producing the address map and street index""; ""Activity 12. Conducting a media campaign""; ""Activity 13. Maintaining and adapting the system""; ""Annexes""; ""1. Terms of reference for tax registers""; ""2. Toponymy Commission�Burkina Faso""; ""3. Cameroon: Naming of streets and public squares in cities""
""4. Tracking and monitoring addressing operations""""5. Purchase of supplies and materials for street addressing""; ""6. Preparing the address map: aerial photography""; ""7. Preparing address and signage maps""; ""8. Printing the address map and street index""; ""9. Installing addressing materials""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Boxes""; ""Chapter 1""; ""1.1. Inscribing the names of streets in Paris""; ""1.2. Changes to street names in Quebec""; ""1.3. Disgruntled residents and the Toponymy Commission (Canada)""; ""1.4. Belgrade: History is written on the walls""
""1.5. China: Compass-based street addressing""""1.6. Japan: Helpless citizens""; ""1.7. Numbering of houses in Crest (France) in 1766""; ""1.8. A “citizen project �""; ""Chapter 2""; ""2.1. Monitoring of epidemics (Maputo, Mozambique)""; ""2.2. Household waste, Conakry, Guinea""; ""2.3. Inventory and valuation of built assets (Senegal and Guinea)""; ""2.4. Development of tax registers (Senegal)""; ""2.5. Tax department involvement in street addressing surveys (Niger)""; ""2.6. Street addressing and concessionary services (Mozambique)""; ""2.7. Economic database (Maputo)""; ""Chapter 4""
Summary The most spectacular change in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last few decades has been the dramatic demographic shift from rural areas to cities. As a result, more than 50% of the city streets in the region have no names or addresses, and the problem is particularly acute in the poorest neighborhoods. With no system of coordinates and no baseline information, how do you find your way around a growing city? How do you dispatch ambulances, firefighters, and law enforcement personnel, send mail, or locate breakdowns in water, electricity, and telephone systems? This book reviews the role of addressing within the array of urban management tools and explores the links between addressing and civic identity, urban information systems, support to municipal services, tax systems, land management and tenure issues, slum upgrading, support to concessionary services, and economic development. It outlines current and future applications, highlights practices in many African countries, and offers a methodological guide for implementing street addressing initiatives which is widely applicable in other parts of the world
Notes ""4.1. Historical curiosities""
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Subject Urban economics.
Street addresses -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Street names -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
City planning -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Urbanization
Street names
Street addresses
City planning
Economic history
Urban economics
SUBJECT Africa -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001548
Subject Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Godin, Lucien
Leroux, Hugues
ISBN 9780821358160
0821358162