Cityscapes of New Orleans

Cityscapes of New Orleans
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780807168349
ISBN-13 : 0807168343
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cityscapes of New Orleans by : Richard Campanella

Download or read book Cityscapes of New Orleans written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cityscapes of New Orleans takes readers on a journey through the winding, bumpy streets of the Crescent City to uncover the traumas, celebrations, and oddities that give the city its unique flavor. In these essays, geographer and historian Richard Campanella reveals the why behind the where, explaining New Orleans’s street grids, parcel lines, and municipal systems; the character and distribution of its peoples, neighborhoods, cultures, and economies; the origins of its architecture and fate of its prominent buildings; the challenges of its urban environment and trauma of its disasters; and the complex relationship it maintains with the rest of state, nation, and world.


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