Title Geographies of New Orleans : urban fabrics before the storm / Richard Campanella

Published Lafayette, LA : Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) Contents Past geographies: Historical events of geographical significance in the New Orleans region -- Physical geographies: Geological New Orleans ; Pedological New Orleans ; Topographic New Orleans ; Riverine New Orleans -- Urban geographies: Morphology of a metropolis ; An architectural geography of the French Quarter ; Curious old houses these : patterns of construction date in the French Quarter ; A draping of fashions : patterns of architectural style in the French Quarter ; A philosophy of space : patterns of structural type in the French Quarter ; Signature of the city : patterns of iron-lace galleries and balconies in the French Quarter ; Elysian Fields Avenue : barometer of urban growth ; Uptown/downtown : shifting perceptions, shifting lines ; What the Yellow Pages reveals about New Orleans -- Ethnic geographies: America's first multicultural society? ; Creole New Orleans : the geography of a controversial ethnicity ; Where was the Irish Channel? ; Little Saxony and the German enclaves of New Orleans ; Dryades Street and the geography of Jewish New Orleans ; Greek New Orleans, from Dorgenois to Decatur ; Paradoxical yet typical: the geography of New Orleans' African American community ; Little Palermo and the Sicilian Italians of New Orleans ; Chinatown, New Orleans ; The Vietnamese of Versailles : ethnicity at the suburban periphery ; An ethnic geography of New Orleans -- Future geographies that never were -- Hurricane Katrina and the geographies of catastrophe Summary "Five years in the making, Geographies of New Orleans unveils fresh new perspectives on a famous old city, from its fragile deltaic terrain, to its striking built environment, to its diverse ethnic makeup, to its devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Geographer Richard Campanella brings computer cartography, aerial imagery, spatial analysis, and fieldwork to the study of urban and regional history. In chapters with intriguing titles such as "America?s Oldest Multicultural Society?," "What the Yellow Pages Reveals About New Orleans," "Creole New Orleans: The Geography of a Controversial Ethnicity," "Paradoxical Yet Typical: The Geography of the African-American Community," and "Hurricane Katrina and the Geographies of Catastrophe," Campanella integrates hundreds of historical sources with custom-made maps, graphs, photos, and satellite images to explore the intricate urban fabrics of this fascinating city, up to the moment of their terrible shredding." -- publisher website (October 2006) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-419) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Pictorial works Hurricane damage -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Pictorial works Buildings Hurricane damage Social conditions SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Pictorial works New Orleans (La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans United States, Louisiana, Orleans, New Orleans -- Historical geography. Genre/Form Pictorial works Form Electronic book Author University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Center for Louisiana Studies. ISBN 9781608011322 1608011321

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