New Orleans: The Making Of An Urban Landscape - 9780813940984

Book I. The shaping of New Orleans, from its beginnings to 1975 -- The eccentric city -- A place on the river -- The stages of metropolitan growth -- Epilogue to book one: yet still a fine city? -- Book II. The city transformed, 1975-2002 -- Rediscovering the river -- End of the boom: the oil bust of the 1980s and the disasters that followed it -- A new population geography -- Tourism in New Orleans -- The rising waters: the threats of floods and hurricanes -- Epilogue to book two: where now, the fine city?

• | Author: Peirce Fee Lewis
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Architecture
• | ISBN-10: 0813940982
• | ISBN-13: 9780813940984