Now use the map to search for Taiwan Province, and it can display the complete urban area!
can not only accurately reach the traffic lights on the street, but also turn on the navigation mode and even see traffic jams on the street.
Source: Weibo screenshot
Driven by curiosity, Yidujun "surfs" around Taipei City through a map of De, and found that the streets in this city all have a familiar feeling, because many streets are named after mainland cities. For example, Nanjing East Road, Chengdu Road, Chongqing North Road, Chengde Road , Dunhua North Road, Chengdu Road, Kunming Street...
Source: Weibo screenshot
Many netizens are puzzled, why should the streets in Taiwan be named after the name of a mainland city?
is actually more than Taiwan Province. Many of our urban roads also like to name them by other provinces and cities. For example, according to incomplete statistics, there are roughly 60 roads at home and abroad called Nanjing Road...
Why do urban road names have this rule?
Today, Yidujun will tell you about the knowledge about naming urban streets.
The name of a city road is usually composed of two parts: a common name and a proper name. The common name reflects the type, level and commonness of the road, and is specifically the special code for the road. For example, in the road name "Nanjing Road", "Nanjing" is the name of "Road"; in "Kunming Street", "Kunming" is the name of "street" and "street" is the name of "street".
Source: Zhang Cheyang, Chen Shi. Construction of urban road name system [J]. Planner, 2014, 30(06):123-127.
A lot of information about this road can be seen through the "common name" of a street.
can see the level of the street:
According to relevant regulations, urban road naming is usually divided into three levels. The first level is avenue and a street, which generally refers to the road with the widest road in the middle of the urban road, which implements the city or plays a major traffic function; the second level is road and street, which is usually a road with a wider road in the city and has certain commercial activities; the third level is an alley, which mostly refers to residential roads that are smaller than the "street".
You can also see the direction of the street:
A road is named "road" or "street", which is very particular. The road naming rules of many cities are "north and south roads, east and west streets", which are roads that run north and south in the city, called roads and roads; roads that run east and west are called streets and streets, so people can distinguish between south and south and north by the street names. For example, there is this rule for the roads in Beijing.
And the "proper name" of a street has more knowledge points.
The name of the road is an important information for people to travel and understand the city. Its pronunciation and meaning are often closely related to the geography, history, economy, culture, etc. of the city. The name of the city is slowly formed with urban construction, which not only embodies the history of the city, but also a way for people to perceive the city.
China, many cities including Taipei prefer to use the names of other provinces and cities as the "proper name" of the streets. Tracing the origin of history, they all borrow the road naming rules of the 19th century Shanghai Public Concession .
In 1863, the British and American concessions in Shanghai merged, and later became known as " Public Concessions ". Regarding the naming of roads in the concession, according to records, at a formal naming meeting of Shanghai roads in 1863, British missionary Medhurst proposed to use the names of Chinese administrative provinces and cities as the exclusive name of Shanghai Concession roads. Later, this naming method has been implemented and used to this day.
In Shanghai, north-south roads are usually named after Chinese provinces and regions, such as Tibet Road , Yunnan Road, Guizhou Road, Henan Road , Sichuan Road , etc.; while east-west roads are mostly named after Chinese cities, such as Beijing Road, Tianjin Road , Nanjing Road, Jiujiang Road, etc.
Source: Shanghai release
Moreover, it is very common to have related place names. The location of the province and city corresponding to the road name in the Shanghai territory is usually related to the location of the province, autonomous regions and municipalities in the national territory.
Source: Shanghai release
In Taipei City, the name of streets by mainland cities is learned from Shanghai.
After Taiwan was liberated in 1945, the Chief Executive Office of Taiwan Province announced the "Measures for Correcting the Names of Streets in Counties and Cities in Taiwan Province", among which "promoting the Spirit of the Chinese National " is the highest principle of renaming.
In 1947, a Shanghai architect named Zheng Dingbang was ordered to go to Taipei to work in the Construction Bureau of the Civil Affairs Department of the Chief Executive Office of Taiwan Province, and undertake the important task of naming Taipei's streets.
According to reports, he planned the street names of Taipei according to the Shanghai street naming method. He covered the Taipei street map with the map of China at that time. Except for several main roads named with political and moral meanings, the other secondary streets were named north-south roads with mainland provinces according to the location of the Chinese map, such as Shaanxi Road, Jiangxi Road, Zhejiang Road, etc.; and east-west roads with mainland cities, such as Beijing Road, Nanjing Road, Fuzhou Road, etc.
If you spread out the map of Taipei city streets, draw a coordinate with Zhongshan Road as the vertical axis and Zhongxiao Road as the horizontal axis, and the map of the mainland will spread in front of you - the lower left corner (southwest direction) is Chengdu Road, Xining South Road, Kunming Street, and Liuzhou Street, and the upper right corner (northeast direction) is Jilin Road, Liaoning Road, Changchun Road...
Source: The road name of the southwest corner of Taipei City
So, if you go to Taipei City, as long as you are familiar with the map, you can quickly judge your location through the road signs.
The streets and alleys across the strait record the urban memories of the mainland, and every road in Taipei City guides the direction of home, which has always been the case from ancient times to the present.
So, today we will talk about , what do you think of the rules of street naming in Taipei City? Do you have streets in your city named after another province or city? Please use #weekend exam + Taipei#
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