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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature

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 | #1408586 in Books |  Louisiana State University Press |  2006-09-01 |  2006-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.57 x5.98l,.83 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

 | ISBN13: 9780807132005 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| "An Un-natural Metropolis: Wrestling New Orleans from Nature".|By James Alfred L. Miller Jr.|A very good book: the kin of my French-Canadian ancestors to 1702 old up-river Mobile removed to New Orleans, and later ancestors removed to New Orleans beginning 1805 (when lawyer David Copp, Jr., was murdered in a gambling house). Tradition, from an engineering perspective (floods) an

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 a...

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