Delta Urbanism: New Orleans

New Orleans, LA: Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella maps and analyzes the physical and human geography of New Orleans and coastal Louisiana.

Richard Campanella's detailed works on New Orleans geography have been instant classics, and this book continues that trend. Campanella understands that New Orleans's unique cultureour cuisine, music, architecture, funeral traditions, and literaturehave everything to do with our position on the Mississippi River's delta, as do many of our vulnerabilities. There are lessons for all deltaic cities in this must-read. -James Carville

• 1 Delta Formation 2 Delta Topography 3 Settling the Delta 4 Urbanizing the Delta 5 Why There? 6 Colonial-Era Flood Control 7 A Radical Change of Destiny 8 Unwritten Rules of Urban Expansion 9 The Unplanned Street Plan 10 Antebellum Flood Control 11 Populating the Antebellum City 12 Populating the Postbellum City 13 Draining the Deltaic City 14 Turn-of-the-Century Flood Control 15 Buffering the Deltaic City 16 Twentieth-Century Delta Urbanism 17 Perceiving the Delta City 18 Environmental Consequences of Delta Urbanism 19 Devastating the Deltaic City 20 i? Plandemoniumi? 21 Repopulating the Deltaic City 22 Delta Urbanism: Lessons from New Orleans