Golf courses are to a greater extent than probable to accept roads named afterwards them inwards Vancouver than women. In Vancouver to a greater extent than streets accept been given the mention of famous golf game courses from some the basis than accept been named for famous or notable women. There are 26 streets bearing the mention of a famous golf game course of pedagogy together with entirely sixteen streets inwards the whole metropolis which accept been named for women. Of Vancouver's 651 streets 276 accept been named for men.
CBC News has been investigating how streets accept been named inwards the metropolis of Vancouver. If y'all discount numbered streets together with duplicate names Vancouver has 651 unique street names. These 651 streets are named for people (mostly men), golf game courses, geographical features (e.g. 'beach') together with lots of dead Europeans (again generally men).
You tin terminate thought an interactive map of Vancouver's streets organized into categories of dissimilar types of mention on the City of Vancouver Open Data Portal. On the map roads are colored together with organized past times categories such every bit U.K. places, people from the UK, the industrial plant of Walter Scott, geography etc. You tin terminate read CBC News' analysis of the map inwards The origins of all 651 street names inwards Vancouver.
Of course of pedagogy Vancouver isn't the entirely metropolis which has generally ignored women when naming its metropolis streets. Geochicas inwards Las Calles de las Mujeres has mapped out streets named for men together with women inwards a publish of Latin American together with Castilian cities. In Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany Zeit Online has likewise mapped out streets named for men together with women. In Streetscapes: Mozart, Marx together with a Dictator Zeit Online looks at the trends of naming streets for people together with historical events.
An analysis of the Street Names inwards Vienna reveals that 4,269 streets accept been named for men. Only 356 accept been named for women. Mapbox has likewise created an interactive map showing the distribution of manlike individual together with woman individual street names inwards major cities across the world. According to Mapping Female versus Male Street Names streets inwards Bengaluru, Chennai, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, together with San Francisco are all much to a greater extent than probable to hold upward named for men than women.
