Geographies of New Orleans : urban fabrics before the storm /

"Five years in the making, Geographies of New Orleans unveils fresh new perspectives on a famous old city, from its fragile deltaic terrain, to its striking built environment, to its diverse ethnic makeup, to its devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Geographer Richard Campanella brings computer ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campanella, Richard (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Center for Louisiana Studies
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lafayette, LA : Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006.
Temas:
2005
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Pictorial works.
Hurricane damage > Louisiana > New Orleans > Pictorial works.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Ouvrages illustrés.
Dommages causés par les ouragans > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Ouvrages illustrés.
Buildings.
Hurricane damage.
Social conditions.
New Orleans (La.) > Pictorial works.
New Orleans (La.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Pictorial works.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > Pictorial works.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
United States, Louisiana, Orleans, New Orleans > Historical geography.
Pictorial works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Past geographies: Historical events of geographical significance in the New Orleans region
  • Physical geographies: Geological New Orleans ; Pedological New Orleans ; Topographic New Orleans ; Riverine New Orleans
  • Urban geographies: Morphology of a metropolis ; An architectural geography of the French Quarter ; Curious old houses these : patterns of construction date in the French Quarter ; A draping of fashions : patterns of architectural style in the French Quarter ; A philosophy of space : patterns of structural type in the French Quarter ; Signature of the city : patterns of iron-lace galleries and balconies in the French Quarter ; Elysian Fields Avenue : barometer of urban growth ; Uptown/downtown : shifting perceptions, shifting lines ; What the Yellow Pages reveals about New Orleans
  • Ethnic geographies: America's first multicultural society? ; Creole New Orleans : the geography of a controversial ethnicity ; Where was the Irish Channel? ; Little Saxony and the German enclaves of New Orleans ; Dryades Street and the geography of Jewish New Orleans ; Greek New Orleans, from Dorgenois to Decatur ; Paradoxical yet typical: the geography of New Orleans' African American community ; Little Palermo and the Sicilian Italians of New Orleans ; Chinatown, New Orleans ; The Vietnamese of Versailles : ethnicity at the suburban periphery ; An ethnic geography of New Orleans
  • Future geographies that never were
  • Hurricane Katrina and the geographies of catastrophe.

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