A river and its city
Subtitle: the nature of landscape in New Orleans : with a new preface
By: Ari Kelman.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Subjects: Urban ecology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Human ecology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Mississippi River -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Originally published: c2003.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : nature's highway to market; title: A batture laid out for the particular use of the public; title: Human genius, organed with machinery; title: The necropolis of the South; title: Triumphs in the cause of advancement and progress; title: An act of God; title: Epilogue : the simple needs of automobiles.