Alana Benjamin’s Reviews > The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power > Status Update

The chapter on South Africa about Afrikaans fight to their street names was concisely and well done...

"Modern street names do more than describe; they commemorate." (148)

This book is an interesting dissection of history of places.

“We may grimace when we hear people talk of ‘finding themselves,’” Nicholas Carr has explained in his book The Glass Cage. “But the figure of speech, however vain and shopworn, acknowledges our deeply held sense that who we are is tangled up in where we are.”

"Often where epidemics break out, there are no maps either."

Reading about the Haiti cholera outbreak in 2010 is still as infuriating as ever...

This book is fascinating...