Introduction to Urban Addressing System: Necessity to Efficiency

Urban addressing system includes various economic, social, legal, and civil aspects. This system provides the spatial locating of urban facilities, thereby affecting the quantity and quality of services available to citizens. Urban addressing system founds the vital potentials for the city and establishes wide opportunities in the field of urban planning and management considered in this paper. On this base, the efficiency of urban addressing system is very key and important in terms of logical, consistent, and transparent mechanisms for easy performance, use, and forecast. Thus, numerous projects in order to reform the existing urban addressing systems or fund for defining the new ones are being carried out in different cities around the world. These projects are operationalized by major steps and actions, such as feasibility study, codification, surveying, mapping, number assignment, installation of signs, setting up an address directory, and maintaining, in three phases of preparation, implementation, and maintenance. Civic identity, urban information, municipal services, tax systems, land management, and economic development are applied potentials through the development of efficient urban addressing systems projects.