ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on renaming streets and urban landmarks in the wake of political change have tended to neglect the issue of continuity in the toponymic landscape. The renaming of streets following political change might appear to be uncomplicated since the incoming order will usually have control of the necessary administrative and bureaucratic apparatus. The limits to state power and the resulting lack of comprehensive renaming are also evident in the case of streets in Romania named after Vasile Roaita during the socialist era. For urban managers to implement top-down a policy of street renaming requires the allocation of resources for the production of new signage, plus the labor costs of installing it. Although there has been considerable academic interest in the renaming of streets following political change, most researchers have focused on the top-down, political-administrative process of renaming. However, the responses of the urban population to such renaming's have received only scant attention.
