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A River and Its City
The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
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This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orleans's waterfront, examining the link between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between public and private control of the river. He describes the impact of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi. Considering how the city grew distant--culturally and spatially--from the river, this book argues that urban areas provide a rich source for understanding people's connections with nature, and in turn, nature's impact on human history.
University of California Press; January 2003
299 pages; ISBN 9780520936515
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299 pages; ISBN 9780520936515
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Subject categories
- Academic > Sociology > Communities. Classes. Races > Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
- The Environment > City Planning & Urban Development
- The Environment > Environmental Science
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > 20th Century
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History > Military > Vietnam War
- Science > Geography
- Social Science > Human Geography
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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9780520936515
9780520234321
0520936515