The street names of Vienna memorialize the lives of thousands of men. 4,269 of them. That is how many streets inwards the Austrian working capital alphabetic lineament accept been named for famous (and non in addition to so famous) men. The lives of women are non celebrated quite in addition to so much inwards the street names of Vienna. In fact solely 356 streets accept been named for women.
Street Names inwards Vienna visualizes all the streets named for men in addition to women on an interactive map. On the map streets named for men are colored bluish in addition to streets named for women are colored red. You tin click on the private streets to acquire a lilliputian to a greater extent than close each private memorialized inwards Vienna's street names.
Street Names inwards Vienna too includes a statistics view. If you lot click on the lilliputian graph icon higher upwards the map all the manful individual in addition to woman individual streets transition into ii long roads. This shows the full length of all the roads named for men in addition to the full length of all the roads named for women. 1,541 km of roads (or 42.4% of the full length of Vienna's roads) are named for men. 109 km (or 3% of the full length of Vienna's roads) accept been named for women.
The animated transitions betwixt the map in addition to statistics views of the information were created using D3.js. You tin acquire how the transitions are made on the map creator's tutorial on Transitions from Maps to Diagrams.
It isn't solely inwards Vienna where a patriarchal sentiment of the basis is reflected inwards the names of its streets. Mapbox has analysed the number of street names named later men in addition to women throughout the basis in addition to determined that far to a greater extent than streets are named later men than women.
Mapbox has created an interactive map showing the distribution of manful individual in addition to woman individual street names inwards major cities across the world. On the map all the manful individual street names are colored bluish in addition to all the woman individual street names are colored red. The map reveals that at that spot is a far higher proportion of bluish streets than reddish streets throughout the world. According to Mapping Female versus Male Street Names if you lot add together upwards all the streets inwards Bengaluru, Chennai, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, in addition to San Francisco solely 27.5% are named later women.
Geochicas accept too been investigating the under-representation of women inwards street names. They accept looked at a number of Latin American in addition to Castilian cities to explore the number of streets named for men compared to the number of streets named for women.
Las Calles de las Mujeres is an interactive map which shows all streets named for men in addition to women inwards Asuncion, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Lima in addition to Montevideo. In each metropolis roads named for men are colored bluish in addition to roads colored yellowish accept been named for women. The colors on the map render a quick overview of how many streets accept been named for women compared to men. Just to brand certain that at that spot is no dubiety close the number the map sidebar too includes a pie nautical chart that shows the pct of streets named for both men in addition to women inwards each city.
Las Calles de las Mujeres too aims to celebrate the pocket-size pct of women who accept been commemorated past times having streets named for them. It has so linked to the Wikipedia articles (where available) of the women whose names appear on the map. You tin read to a greater extent than close the projection (in Spanish) at Geochicas.
Earlier this twelvemonth Zeit Online released a fascinating analysis of the most pop High German street names. As business office of this investigation they looked into how street names reverberate society's prejudices, beliefs in addition to attitudes. One matter the projection revealed was the under-representation of women inwards metropolis street names.
In Streetscapes: Mozart, Marx in addition to a Dictator Zeit Online looks at the trends of naming streets for people in addition to historical events. One matter that they discovered is that streets are far to a greater extent than probable to hold upwards named for men than they are for women. For example inwards Hamburg 2,511 streets are named later men in addition to solely 397 are named later women.
