Toponymie moderního sídliště – na příkladu pátého stavebního obvodu městské části Ostrava-Poruba
A Toponymy of a Modern Housing Estate – a Case Study of the Fifth District of the Municipal Borough of Ostrava-Poruba

Summary/Abstract: This study is focused on the survey of a non-standardized (popular) toponymy of the fifth district of the municipal borough of Ostrava-Poruba, which was established, as a prototypical socialistic housing estate, from the 1940s to the 1980s. The green-field establishment of a self-sufficient city, the yard-based shaping of the construction, and the way the standardized toponymical structure was politically charged (commemorative names) became the main triggers and background of the development of popular urban names; these are studied from two different social groups’ points of view. The research started in a family whose three generations had been closely linked to the district; this survey was followed by another one, focusing on pupils of the local elementary school.

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