Urban street names: An opportunity to examine biocultural relationships?

ABSTRACT: With increasing urbanisation there is concern regarding loss of experience and knowledge of biodiversity amongst urban populations. Yet biodiversity representations are retained in many art and functional forms, including names of places, buildings, institutions and streets. These manifestations offer a window to examine the relationship between humans and their experienced or imagined environment using a biocultural lens. I quantified the current prevalence of urban streets named after animals or plant species, the diversity of species represented, whether they are native or non-native, whether representative of the biome in which the town was situated and the change in prevalence through time. The street names of 48 towns in a one degree wide south-north belt across seven of South Africa

SUBMITTER: Shackleton CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6059469 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature