Cityscapes of New Orleans

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Cityscapes of New Orleans is written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807168343 (ISBN 10) and 9780807168349 (ISBN 13).

Cityscapes of New Orleans takes readers on a journey through the winding, bumpy streets of the Crescent City to uncover the traumas, celebrations, and oddities that give the city its unique flavor. In these essays, geographer and historian Richard Campanella reveals the why behind the where, explaining New Orleans’s street grids, parcel lines, and municipal systems; the character and distribution of its peoples, neighborhoods, cultures, and economies; the origins of its architecture and fate of its prominent buildings; the challenges of its urban environment and trauma of its disasters; and the complex relationship it maintains with the rest of state, nation, and world.