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THE ADDRESS BOOK - DEIRDRE MASK KARTONIERT (TB)

Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021   A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020   Shortlisted for
the Katharine Briggs Award 2020   'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse  alley  avenue
and boulevard.' -Simon Garfield  author of Just My Type   'Fascinating ... intelligent but
thoroughly accessible ... full of surprises' - Sunday Times   When most people think about
street addresses they think of parcel deliveries  or visitors finding their way. But who
numbered the first house  and where  and why? What can addresses tell us about who we are and
how we live together?  Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King
Jr.  how ancient Romans found their way  and why Bobby Sands is memorialised in Tehran. She
explores why it matters if  like millions of people today  you don't have an address.  From
cholera epidemics to tax hungry monarchs  Mask discovers the different ways street names are
created  celebrated  and in some cases  banned. Full of eye-opening facts  fascinating people
and hidden history  this book shows how addresses are about identity  class and race. But most
of all they are about power: the power to name  to hide  to decide who counts  who doesn't  and
why.  'A must read for urbanists and all those interested in cities and modern economic and
social life.' - Richard Florida  author of The Rise of the Creative Class

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