Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Derek Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu. The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place. Routledge, 2018.
This book provided the theoretical foundation for understanding street names as political symbols. It helped us analyze how naming reflects power dynamics, national identity, and contested memory.

Azaryahu, Maoz. Names, Naming, and the Politics of Space. Routledge, 2020.
Azaryahu’s work was useful for understanding street renaming not just as an administrative act, but as a form of ideological and cultural transformation in post-Soviet societies.

Light, Duncan, and Craig Young. “Political Identity, Urban Change and the Struggle for Street Names in Romania.” Geojournal 56, no. 2 (2002): 135–144.
A useful comparative example from Eastern Europe. This article shows how street names were changed in Romania to reflect new political identities after 1989, offering insight for our analysis of Riga.

Latvijas Vēstnesis – The official legislative publication of Latvia. We used this to verify official decisions about renaming, including legal justifications and timelines. Available at www.vestnesis.lv

Riga City Council (Rīgas Dome) – Provided access to municipal planning documents, local debates, and council minutes regarding renaming decisions. See www.riga.lv

Latvian State Historical Archives (Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs) – Source of historical address records, older naming systems, and archival context for understanding changes over time. Access via www.arhivi.gov.lv

OpenStreetMap and Google Maps – Used for confirming street locations, mapping coordinates, and building a comparative layer between old and new street names.

News sources including LSM.lv, Diena, and TVNET – Provided journalistic coverage of recent renaming debates, especially following the 2022 war in Ukraine, which triggered a new wave of symbolic changes.