Richard Campanella

Delta Urbanism: New Orleans (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351178013
• Artikelnr.: 50214897

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1 Delta Formation 2 Delta Topography 3 Settling the Delta 4 Urbanizing the
Delta 5 Why There? 6 Colonial-Era Flood Control 7 A Radical Change of
Destiny 8 Unwritten Rules of Urban Expansion 9 The Unplanned Street Plan 10
Antebellum Flood Control 11 Populating the Antebellum City 12 Populating
the Postbellum City 13 Draining the Deltaic City 14 Turn-of-the-Century
Flood Control 15 Buffering the Deltaic City 16 Twentieth-Century Delta
Urbanism 17 Perceiving the Delta City 18 Environmental Consequences of
Delta Urbanism 19 Devastating the Deltaic City 20 i? Plandemoniumi? 21
Repopulating the Deltaic City 22 Delta Urbanism: Lessons from New Orleans