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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 over New Orleans's waterfront, examining the link between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between public and private control of the river. He describes the impact of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi. Considering how the city grew distant--culturally and spatially--from the river, this book argues that urban areas provide a rich source for understanding people's connections with nature, and in turn, nature's impact on human history.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2006
- Pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.97in - 6.05in - 0.76in - 0.94lb
- EAN: 9780520234338
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,• Historical Geography• Human Geography
About the Author
Ari Kelman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.
Praise for this book
"New Orleans's Mississippi levee, as Kelman explains in this fascinating study, is more than a pile of dirt. It is the key to unraveling the historical dialectic between a great river and an essentially amphibious city. It is also the monumental space of New Orleans's past, where dark plots and heroic dreams remain forever entangled."