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Like most collections of articles turned into books, some chapters here are stronger than others. The parts about the plight of the addressless today and the rise of addressing systems in eighteenth-century Europe were the most interesting to me (though I wish that, as in Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, the author had spent some time looking at the methods unhoused people have developed for themselves to deal with their lack of fixed address instead of focusing entirely
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For the first time in a while, I actually finished a book for my book club several days before our meeting! It's somewhat hard to review The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power as a single book, because it's really a collection of several different topics.
Perhaps the most interesting to me, in part because I was least familiar with it, was "Origins" (Chapters 3-7), an eighty-page history of the origin of street-naming and house-numbering, particular ...more
Perhaps the most interesting to me, in part because I was least familiar with it, was "Origins" (Chapters 3-7), an eighty-page history of the origin of street-naming and house-numbering, particular ...more
Jul 09, 2023
Tiffany Weiss
marked it as to-read
