Delta Urbanism: New Orleans: New Orleans - Hardcover

Campanella, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367092786 ISBN 13: 9780367092788

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. The book describes the underlying physical terrain and covers the various transformations humans have made to it: site selection, settlement, urbanization, population, expansion, drainage, protection, exploitation, devastation, and recovery. What New Orleans has experienced foretells what similar cities will be tackling in years to come.

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Review:

Richard Campanella's detailed works on New Orleans geography have been instant classics, and this book continues that trend. Campanella understands that New Orleans's unique culture--our cuisine, music, architecture, funeral traditions, and literature--have everything to do with our position on the Mississippi River's delta, as do many of our vulnerabilities. There are lessons for all deltaic cities in this must-read. -James Carville

About the Author:

New Orleans, LA: Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella maps and analyzes the physical and human geography of New Orleans and coastal Louisiana.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367092786
• ISBN 13: 9780367092788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228