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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colten, Craig E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Edition:Louisiana paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wetland ecology.
Water levels.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Social conditions
River engineering.
Human ecology.
Flood routing.
Ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Niveau des eaux > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Propagation des crues > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Technologie fluviale > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Écologie des zones humides > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Écologie urbaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Écologie humaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Water levels > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Flood routing > Louisiana > New Orleans.
River engineering > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Wetland ecology > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Human ecology > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Louisiana > New Orleans Metropolitan Area.
Louisiana > New Orleans
New Orleans Metropolitan Area (La.) > Environmental conditions.
New Orleans Metropolitan Area (La.) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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