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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature Signed Colten, Craig
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Literary Movement
- Naturalism
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780807129777
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Unnatural Metropolis : Wresting New Orleans from Nature
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Hydraulics, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Ecology, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 266 Pages
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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 An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000. Before the city could swell in size and commercial importance as its nineteenth-century boosters envisioned, builders had to wrest it from its waterlogged site, protect it from floods, expel disease, and supply basic services using local resources. Colten shows how every manipulation of the environment made an impact on the city's social geography as well - often with unequal, adverse consequences for minorities - and how each still requires maintenance and improvement today. For example, while the massive levee system has controlled the unpredictable Mississippi, it also captures heavy down-pours, creating a new set of internal flood problems. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nat
Product Identifiers
Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807129771
ISBN-13
9780807129777
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30785949
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unnatural Metropolis : Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Hydraulics, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Ecology, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science, Social Science
Number of Pages
266 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gf504.L8c65 2004
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2004-008640
Dewey Decimal
304.2/80976335
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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