Cityscapes Of New Orleans
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Author |
: Richard Campanella |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 554 |
Release |
: 2017-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807168356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807168351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cityscapes of New Orleans by : Richard Campanella
Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city’s distinct urbanism and eccentricities. In Cityscapes of New Orleans, Campanella—a historical geographer and professor at Tulane University—reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for over three centuries. For Campanella, every bewildering street grid and linguistic quirk has a story to tell about the landscape of Louisiana and the geography of its bestknown city. Cityscapes of New Orleans starts with an examination of neighborhoods, from the origins of faubourgs and wards to the impact of the slave trade on patterns of residence. Campanella explains how fragments of New Orleans streets continue to elude Google Maps and why humble Creole cottages sit alongside massive Greek Revival mansions. He considers the roles of modern urban planning, environmentalism, and preservation, all of which continue to influence the layout of the city and its suburbs. In the book’s final section, Campanella explores the impact of natural disasters as well-known as Hurricane Katrina and as unfamiliar as “Sauvé’s Crevasse,” an 1849 levee break that flooded over two hundred city blocks. Cityscapes of New Orleans offers a wealth of perspectives for uninitiated visitors and transplanted citizens still confounded by terms like “neutral ground,” as well as native-born New Orleanians trying to understand the Canal Street Sinkhole. Campanella shows us a vibrant metropolis with stories around every corner.
Author |
: Richard Campanella |
Publisher |
: University of Louisiana |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018968708 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Geographies of New Orleans by : Richard Campanella
Geographies of New Orleans integrates hundred of historical sources with custom-made maps, graphs, photos, and satellite images to explore the intricate urban fabrics of one of the world's most fascinating cities from its fragile deltaic terrain to its striking built environment, from its diverse ethnic makeup to its devastation by Hurricane Katrina.
Author |
: Richard Campanella |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2017-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807168349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807168343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cityscapes of New Orleans by : Richard Campanella
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.
Author |
: Louise McKinney |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064702460 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Orleans by : Louise McKinney
"With its antebellum mansions, above-ground cemeteries, and ghostly moss-bearded oaks, New Orleans is certainly the most un-American of american cities, creating its own laid-back "Big Easy" attitude from the customs of the people who founded it: French and Spanish colonists, gens de couleur libres, NOrthern adventurers, riverboat men, pirates, and Cajuns. From this eclectic mix of influences has evolved a distinctive Creole culture, expressed in language, architecture, and cuisine"--Back cover.
Author |
: Richard Campanella |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807176061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807176060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Above New Orleans by : Richard Campanella
The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, from the French Quarter to Uptown, from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, from Westwego to New Orleans East, and from Gentilly to Gretna. A detailed description accompanies each image, providing insight into the history, geography, and architecture of this dazzling municipality. As this volume demonstrates, the vantage points afforded by the drone-mounted camera reveal fascinating views otherwise unobtainable in the often compact environment of New Orleans. “To me a roofscape is the tout ensemble of urban elements,” writes Richard Campanella in the book’s preface, “particularly in dense neighborhoods, visible from a perch that is high enough to be synoptical, yet low enough to be intimate. Roofscapes are the intermediary between the more familiar concepts of streetscapes and landscapes; they are the oblique, three-dimensional renderings of cityscapes.” Capturing these views of New Orleans required the specialized equipment and expertise of retired Italian engineer Marco Rasi, who has mastered the new technology of drone photography in his adopted hometown. His adept piloting and keen eye made for, in Rasi’s words, “the perfect platform to capture those rooftop perspectives I had always savored, as no aircraft or helicopter could ever do.” Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City beautifully documents the aesthetic wonder of the city’s singular urban landscape.
Author |
: Richard Campanella |
Publisher |
: University of Louisiana |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105132231312 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bienville's Dilemma by : Richard Campanella
All New Orleans' glories, tragedies, contributions, and complexities can be traced back to the geographical dilemma Bienville confronted in 1718 when selecting the primary location of New Orleans. "Bienville's Dilemma" presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery.
Author |
: Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2013-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520274037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520274032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unfathomable City by : Rebecca Solnit
Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.
Author |
: James K. Hogue |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 517 |
Release |
: 2011-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807143926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807143928 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uncivil War by : James K. Hogue
No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics and a critical battleground in the struggle for the future of southern society. No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics and a critical battleground in the struggle for the future of southern society. Hogue characterizes Reconstruction in Louisiana as a continuation of civil war, waged between well-organized and well-armed forces vying to control the state's government. He details five key New Orleans street battles, in which elite Confederate veterans played central roles, and gives an in-depth account of how the Republican state government raised militias and a state police force to defend against the violence. In response, a white supremacist movement arose in the mid-1870s and finally overthrew the Republicans. The occupation of Louisiana by federal troops from 1862 to 1877 was the longest of its kind in American history. Not coincidentally, Hogue argues, one of the longest unbroken periods of one-race, one-party dominance in American history followed, lasting until 1972. Uncivil War reveals that the long-term military impact of the South's occupation included twenty-five years of crippled War Department budgets inflicted by southern congressmen who feared another Reconstruction. Within Louisiana, the biracial Republican militias were dismantled, leaving blacks largely unarmed against future atrocities; at the same time, the nucleus of the state's White Leagues became the Louisiana National Guard, which defended the "Redeemer" government's repressive labor policies. White supremacist victory cast its shadow over American race relations for almost a century. Moving between national, state, and local realms, Uncivil War demystifies the interplay of force and politics during a complex period of American history.
Author |
: Sharon Keating |
Publisher |
: Gramercy |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2005-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 051722660X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780517226605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis New Orleans in Photographs by : Sharon Keating
From cajun cooking to the Mardi Gras celebration, this gorgeous photographic tour celebrates the sights and attractions of New Orleans. From historic buildings and architecture, to the natural beauty of the city's parks and waterfront,New Orleans in Photographscaptures the spirit of this beloved city. Each photograph highlights a famous sight or location throughout the city, as well as lesser known attractions and hidden gems. Captions offer history, trivia, and interesting anecdotes. Anyone who loves New Orleans, natives and visitors alike, will appreciate this celebration of the city.
Author |
: Robert Campbell |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015029726182 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cityscapes of Boston by : Robert Campbell
The entire history of a Boston's development unfolds in a series of "before and after" photographs. Developed from a series of photographic essays in the Boston Globe Magazine, this book tells how cities grow and change, describes the cycles of renewal and decay, and more. 240 photographs. Maps.