📚 Street Names

The map’s text: how streets got their names, who renamed them, and the local histories written from the signs.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject street names in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Address Book	Deirdre Mask	2020	9
	Street-names of the city of London	Eilert Ekwall	1954	6
	The evolution of useful things	Henry Petroski	1992	6
	Ierusalim	Alex Reznikov	1996	6
	Stradario storico biografico della città di Firenze	Demetrio Guccerelli	1929	5
	Street Names of Milton Keynes	Anne Baker	2006	5
	Asunción y sus calles	Osvaldo Kallsen	1974	4
	Streets of Fort Wayne	Angus Cameron McCoy	1945	3
	The street names of old Newcastle	N. J. Munro	1970	3
	Calles de Sevilla	Manuel Ferrand	1976	3
	De naam van onze straat	J. A. Wiersma	1977	3
	Histoire des rues de Toulouse	Jules Chalande	1982	3
	Buenos Aires	Vicente Osvaldo Cutolo	1988	3
	À la découverte des noms des rues de Tours	Geneviève Gascuel	1999	3
	Kot sēnābō̜dī Krasūang Mahātthai kot thī 1/125	William J. Gedney	1906	2
	Thamnīap nām phāk 4	William J. Gedney	1939	2
	San Francisco street names	Carlisle, Henry C.	1954	2
	Les rues de Reims	Paul Seltzer	1975	2
	Toponímia de Macau	Manuel Teixeira	1979	2
	Chronique des rues d'Amiens	Paule Roy	1980	2
	Barrios, calles y plazas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires	Alberto Gabriel Piñeiro	1983	2
	A history of Calcutta's streets	P. Thankappan Nair	1987	2
	L' histoire au coin de la rue	Daniel Appriou	1989	2
	Laval	Gilbert Chaussis	1993	2
	Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children	John Churchill Chase	2001	2
	La grande guida delle strade di Roma	Claudio Rendina	2003	2
	Toponymics	Victor R. Savage	2003	2
	Las calles de Hermosillo	J. B. Woolfolk	2008	2
	Singapore street names	Victor R. Savage	2013	2
	Milano numerizzato	Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio conte	1812	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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