Every name [in the artisans’ city] was a branch of life, it was the memory of a moment of collective life. The street map was like a patrimony of memories, of affection, binding individuals together more strongly with the ties of solidarity through memory. The shop-keeping bourgeoisie has destroyed this heritage. … All the princes, regents, ministers and generals of the House of Savoy have been given their niche. … The encyclopedia has provided the rest. The bourgeois city is cosmopolitan, in other words a false international, a false universality. … It is the triumph of the colorless and tasteless cosmopolis. - author⁄Antonio Francesco Gramsci
Published in Avanti! (1917)
Qtd. in bib⁄Vuolteenaho, Jani, and Guy Puzey. Armed with an encyclopedia and an axe, 78. In Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Derek Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu, eds. The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place. Routledge, 2017, 74-97.
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