Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. What Is Street Addressing and Why Is It Necessary? -- What is street addressing? -- Why is street addressing necessary? -- 2. Street Addressing Applications -- Street addressing and civic identity -- Street addressing and urban information -- Street addressing and support to municipal services -- Street addressing and tax systems -- Street addressing and the land tenure issue -- Street addressing and slum upgrading -- Street addressing and concessionary services -- Street addressing and economic development -- 3. Street Addressing Practices -- Overview of main experiences -- Burkina Faso -- Cameroon -- Guinea -- Mali -- Mauritania -- Mozambique -- Niger -- Sénégal -- Other projects: Benin, Rwanda, Djibouti, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire -- 4. Street Addressing Manual -- Basic assumptions -- Activity 1. Designing the street addressing program -- Activity 2. Conducting a feasibility study -- Activity 3. Setting up the street addressing unit -- Activity 4. Estimating costs and time frames for an addressing program -- Activity 5. Defining the scope of the program -- Activity 6. Choosing a codification system -- Activity 7. Mapping -- Activity 8. Surveying and numbering doorways -- Activity 9. Recording addresses -- Activity 10. Installing street signs -- Activity 11. Producing the address map and street index -- Activity 12. Conducting a media campaign -- Activity 13. Maintaining and adapting the system -- Annexes -- 1. Terms of reference for tax registers -- 2. Toponymy Commission-Burkina Faso -- 3. Cameroon: Naming of streets and public squares in cities -- 4. Tracking and monitoring addressing operations -- 5. Purchase of supplies and materials for street addressing -- 6. Preparing the address map: aerial photography -- 7. Preparing address and signage maps.

8. Printing the address map and street index -- 9. Installing addressing materials -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Boxes -- Chapter 1 -- 1.1. Inscribing the names of streets in Paris -- 1.2. Changes to street names in Quebec -- 1.3. Disgruntled residents and the Toponymy Commission (Canada) -- 1.4. Belgrade: History is written on the walls -- 1.5. China: Compass-based street addressing -- 1.6. Japan: Helpless citizens -- 1.7. Numbering of houses in Crest (France) in 1766 -- 1.8. A "citizen project " -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1. Monitoring of epidemics (Maputo, Mozambique) -- 2.2. Household waste, Conakry, Guinea -- 2.3. Inventory and valuation of built assets (Senegal and Guinea) -- 2.4. Development of tax registers (Senegal) -- 2.5. Tax department involvement in street addressing surveys (Niger) -- 2.6. Street addressing and concessionary services (Mozambique) -- 2.7. Economic database (Maputo) -- Chapter 4 -- 4.1. Historical curiosities -- 4.2. Memorandum of agreement between the municipality and the utility concessionaire -- 4.3. Urbadresse -- Tables -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1. Cadastre and street addressing: a comparison -- Chapter 3 -- 3.1. Features of addressing operations based on a sampling of 21 cities -- 3.2. Execution and financing of addressing by country and city -- 3.3. Addressing applications by country -- 3.4. Street addressing materials per city -- 3.5. Implementation of the project by city -- 3.6. Division and weighting of tasks -- 3.7. RFU costs in US -- Chapter 4 -- 4.1. Street addressing tasks by phase -- 4.2. Distribution and phasing of tasks -- 4.3. Computer equipment for the unit -- 4.4. Basic cost calculation data -- 4.5. Calculating cost of street addressing (example) -- 4.6. Cost calculation assumptions -- 4.7. Summary of costs according to the city's population -- 4.8. Variation in cost according to materials used.

4.9. Implementation time frame according to the size of the city -- 4.10. Decametric numbering system -- 4.11. Unit cost of materials,not including installation (in US) -- 4.12. Comparison of sign densities by cost -- 4.13. Sample list of street signs -- Figures -- Chapter 1 -- 1.1. History is written on the walls of Belgrade . . . The inscriptions change in the streets in Paris -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1. Cadastre and street addressing -- 2.2. Addressing informal settlements -- Chapter 3 -- 3.1. Ouagadougou: Divided into sectors -- 3.2. Conakry:Divided by "communes" -- 3.3. Bamako: Divided by "addressing zones." Cities addressed in Mali -- 3.4. Cities addressed in Mauritania -- 3.5. Mozambique cities involved in addressing initiatives -- 3.6. Niamey: Divided into "districts" -- 3.7. Cities addressed in Senegal -- 3.8. San Pedro: Divided into "addressing zones" -- Chapter 4 -- 4.1. Flowchart for tasks -- 4.2. Planning of tasks -- 4.3. Addresses assigned to urban fixtures -- 4.4. Organizational chart for the street addressing unit -- 4.5. Street addressing unit during implementation -- 4.6. Street addressing materials -- 4.7. Training of a street addressing unit -- 4.8. Defining phases of a street addressing project -- 4.9. Addressing subdivision by address zones and by neighborhoods -- 4.10. Progression of the numbering system -- 4.11. Sequential alternating numbering systems -- 4.12. Metric alternating numbering system -- 4.13. Decametric alternating numbering system -- 4.14. Codification of cul-de-sacs and intersections -- 4.15. Codification of intersections -- 4.16. Addressing in informal settlements -- 4.17. Combined addressing system -- 4.18. Puebla Los Angeles in 1531 -- 4.19. Mannheim -- 4.20. Paris: Choderlos de Laclos' proposal -- 4.21. Street addressing system in Washington, D.C. -- 4.22. Sectors in Chandigarh.

4.23. Stages of implementation for a street address map -- 4.24. Example of an address map (Conakry) -- 4.25. Example of survey form -- 4.26. Field surveyor and survey taker -- 4.27. Team progress chart -- 4.28. Model memo to be presented during the survey -- 4.29. Progress chart for street addressing tasks -- 4.30. Recording data -- 4.31. Stenciling materials -- 4.32. Sponsored street signs -- 4.33. Signage map -- 4.34. Street signs and signposts -- 4.35. Sample map and index -- 4.36. Conducting a media campaign through film, posters, logos.