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Title Sweet spots : in-between spaces in New Orleans / edited by Teresa A. Toulouse and Barbara C. Ewell
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

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Contents Cover; SWEET SPOTS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; INTERSPACE ONE City Palimpsest; CHAPTER ONE Interstitial Urban Space: Inhabiting the Pleats and Notches in the Urban Fabric of New Orleans; CHAPTER TWO The Broken Plantation and the Sweet Space of Gardens; INTERSPACE TWO Interstitial Systems; CHAPTER THREE Connection, Separation, and Mediation: Interstitial Systems in Traditional New Orleans Architecture; CHAPTER FOUR Harmony Street: An Interstitial House; INTERSPACE THREE Representing the In-Between; CHAPTER FIVE Degas's New Orleanian Spaces
CHAPTER SIX John Galsworthy's "That Old-Time Place": Nostalgia, Repetition, and Interstitial Space in the St. Louis "Exchange" HotelINTERSPACE FOUR Constituting and Contesting the Interstitial; CHAPTER SEVEN "Seeing the Elephant" in New Orleans's Interstitial Spaces: A Look behind Modern-Day Bourbon Street to the Origins of Civic Repute; CHAPTER EIGHT Where Women Live: Creating and Regulating the Spaces of Women's Lives, 1880-1950; CHAPTER NINE Congo Square as a Lieu de Souvenir in New Orleans: Race, Place, and the Complexity of Blackness; INTERSPACE FIVE In-Betweenness in Motion
CHAPTER TEN Into the Between: Interstitial Soundscapes in Early New Orleans JazzCHAPTER ELEVEN The Cultural Democracy of the Second Line: A View from beyond the Ropes; INTERSPACE SIX "Authenticity," Simulacra, and Apocalypse; CHAPTER TWELVE Airportness in New Orleans; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Carnival at the Edge of the Abyss: New Orleans and the Apocalyptic Imagination; INTERSPACE SEVEN; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index
Summary A vibrant exploration of the Crescent City's distinctive in-between spaces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2018)
Subject Space (Architecture) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Architecture -- Human factors -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture -- Human factors
Buildings
Civilization
Space (Architecture)
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
New Orleans (La.) -- Civilization
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Form Electronic book
Author Toulouse, Teresa, editor
Ewell, Barbara C., editor
Heard, Malcolm, dedicatee
LC no. 2017053011
ISBN 9781496817068
1496817060