A River and Its City The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans First Edition by Ari Kelman ISBN 0520234324 9780520234321

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ISBN 10: 0520234324 

ISBN 13: 9780520234321

Author: Ari Kelman 

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.

Table of contents:

1. Natures Highways to Market

2. A Batture Laid Out for the Particular Use of the Public

3. Human Genius Organed with Machinery

4. The Necropolis of the South

5. Triumphs in the Cause of Advancement and Progress

6. An Act of God

7. The Simple Needs of Automobiles

8. Notes

9. Works Cited

10. Index

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