A river and its city : the nature of landscape in New Orleans /

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 ove...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelman, Ari, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Human ecology > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Écologie urbaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Écologie humaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Human ecology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Delta's.
Havensteden.
Sociale ecologie.
Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Mississippi River.
New Orleans (La.)
Mississippi (rivier)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue : Nature's highway to market
  • Batture laid out for the particular use of the public
  • Human genius, organed with machinery ; Necropolis of the South ; Triumphs in the cause of advancement and progress
  • Act of God
  • Epilogue : Simple needs of automobiles.

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