A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans

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This engaging environmental history explores the upward push, fall, and rebirth of one of the vital nation’s most essential urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people’s relationships with the wildlife. Ari Kelman specializes in the battles fought over New Orleans’s waterfront, examining the link between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between private and non-private keep watch over of the river. He describes the affect of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans’s interactions with the Mississippi. Taking into account how the city grew distant—culturally and spatially—from the river, this book argues that urban areas provide a wealthy source for understanding people’s connections with nature, and in turn, nature’s affect on human history.
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