Delirious New Orleans
Subtitle: manifesto for an extraordinary American city
By: Stephen Verderber ; foreword by Kevin Alter.
Series: Roger Fullington series in architecture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780292717534
Subjects: Vernacular architecture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Outsider art -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Urban renewal -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; City planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; New Orleans (La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Delirious landscape; title: Commercial vernacular architecture in New Orleans; title: Soul, funk, and hip-hop; title: Illusion, delusion, and folly; title: Roadside nomadicism and a city's rebirth; title: Architecture under siege: a lesson from Katrina for twenty-first-century America.