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An Unnatural Metropolis : Wresting New Orleans from Nature /
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River, yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forc...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | Louisiana paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 3 | |a An Unnatural Metropolis : |b Wresting New Orleans from Nature / |c Craig E. Colten ; with a new preface by the author. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The city and the environment -- Water hazards -- Remaking the environment -- Inequity and the environment -- Environment comes to the fore -- Combating new flood hazards -- Reintroducing wetland environments. | |
| 520 | |a Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River, yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of this book. The author traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000. | ||
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