Mississippi Floods
Subtitle: Designing a Shifting Landscape
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300084306
Subjects: Applied ecology; Flood control; Hydrology (freshwater); Landscape art & architecture; Management of land & natural resources; Earth Sciences - Geography; Landscape; Environmental Science; Architecture And The Environment; Geography Of The United States; Mathur, Anuradha; Architecture; Environmental Studies; In art; Mississippi; North Central & Mid-West states; Engineering - Civil; Rivers; Landscape assessment; Mississippi River Valley; Cunha, Dilip da; Exhibitions
First sentence: In the township of Clinton, Mississippi, on the outskirts of Jackson, forty miles due east of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, lies abandoned the world's most ambitious working model-the Mississippi Basin Model.
Description: "Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?".

"The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape.

Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.