The Address Book

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

by Deirdre Mask (Profile, 2020)

Book cover: “The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power” by Deirdre Mask (Profile, 2020)

Fascinating, yet oddly unfocussed and unsystematic—like many of the address systems detailed within. Mask drifts around the world, being interested in things and darting from idea to offshoot but never quite elevating her subject matter to something more than historical trivia.

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