Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans to the Honorable City Council
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
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Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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An Unnatural Metropolis
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807147826
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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 and demonstrates that, though all cities must contend with their physical settings, New Orleans may be the city most dependent on human-induced transformations of its precarious site. In a new preface, Colten shows how Hurricane Katrina exemplifies the inability of human artifice to exclude nature from cities and he urges city planners to keep the environment in mind as they contemplate New Orleans's future. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nature, but in An Unnatural Metropolis, Colten introduces a critical environmental perspective to the history of urban areas. His amply illustrated work offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the natural forces it has sought to harness.
Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
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Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of the City of New Orleans, La
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans to the Honorable City Council
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Semi-annual Report
Author: Water and the Cities
Author: Peter Raven-HansenPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Draining New Orleans
Author: Richard CampanellaPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807179426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to “reclaim” the city’s swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion. The study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank of New Orleans. What transpired in the years and decades that followed can only be understood by examining the large swath of history dating back two centuries earlier—to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta—and extending through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. The consequences of dewatering New Orleans proved both triumphant and tragic. The city’s engineering prowess transformed it into a world leader in drainage technology, yet the municipality also fell victim to its own success. Rather than a story about mud and machinery, this is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of determined and sometimes unsavory individuals who spearheaded projects to separate water from dirt, creating lucrative opportunities in the process not only for the community but also for themselves.
Domestic Engineering
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Category : Domestic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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