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Book Unfathomable City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Solnit
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2013-11-18
  • ISBN : 0520274032
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Unfathomable City written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.

Book Atlas of the City of New Orleans  Louisiana

Download or read book Atlas of the City of New Orleans Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City Maps New Orleans Louisiana  USA

Download or read book City Maps New Orleans Louisiana USA written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps New Orleans Louisiana, USA is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun New Orleans adventure :)

Book New Orleans la Atlas

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Map
  • Publisher : Langenscheidt Pub Incorporated
  • Release : 2009-05-06
  • ISBN : 9780841614550
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book New Orleans la Atlas written by American Map and published by Langenscheidt Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Orleans Guide

Download or read book New Orleans Guide written by James S. Zacharie and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Accidental City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence N. Powell
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-04-13
  • ISBN : 0674065441
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.

Book Cityscapes of New Orleans

Download or read book Cityscapes of New Orleans written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city’s distinct urbanism and eccentricities. In Cityscapes of New Orleans, Campanella—a historical geographer and professor at Tulane University—reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for over three centuries. For Campanella, every bewildering street grid and linguistic quirk has a story to tell about the landscape of Louisiana and the geography of its bestknown city. Cityscapes of New Orleans starts with an examination of neighborhoods, from the origins of faubourgs and wards to the impact of the slave trade on patterns of residence. Campanella explains how fragments of New Orleans streets continue to elude Google Maps and why humble Creole cottages sit alongside massive Greek Revival mansions. He considers the roles of modern urban planning, environmentalism, and preservation, all of which continue to influence the layout of the city and its suburbs. In the book’s final section, Campanella explores the impact of natural disasters as well-known as Hurricane Katrina and as unfamiliar as “Sauvé’s Crevasse,” an 1849 levee break that flooded over two hundred city blocks. Cityscapes of New Orleans offers a wealth of perspectives for uninitiated visitors and transplanted citizens still confounded by terms like “neutral ground,” as well as native-born New Orleanians trying to understand the Canal Street Sinkhole. Campanella shows us a vibrant metropolis with stories around every corner.

Book Infinite City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Solnit
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2010-11-29
  • ISBN : 0520262492
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Infinite City written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.

Book Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs

Download or read book Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs written by William Head Coleman and published by New York, W. H. Coleman. This book was released on 1885 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DK Eyewitness New Orleans

Download or read book DK Eyewitness New Orleans written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utterly unique and entirely irresistible, welcome to New Orleans. Whether you want to attend the world's biggest party, tour the historic architecture of the French Quarter or pay homage to the birthplace of jazz, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that New Orleans has to offer. A melting pot of African, Caribbean and European cultures, New Orleans is a place unlike any other. This heady mix of influences has culminated in a city that celebrates life on a daily basis, reflected in its infectious music, enticing cuisine and restless party spirit. Our newly updated guide brings New Orleans to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights and advice, detailed information on all the must-see sights, inspiring photography and our trademark illustrations. You'll discover: - our pick of New Orleans' must-sees, top experiences, and hidden gems - the best spots to eat, drink, shop and stay - detailed maps and walks which make navigating the city easy - easy-to-follow itineraries - expert advice: get ready, get around and stay safe - color-coded chapters to every part of New Orleans, from the French Quarter to the Garden District, Mid-City to Marigny Want the best of New Orleans in your pocket? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 New Orleans.

Book New Orleans City Map

Download or read book New Orleans City Map written by Maps.com(CR) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1861 Map of the City of New Orleans  and the Adjacent Towns

Download or read book 1861 Map of the City of New Orleans and the Adjacent Towns written by Poetose Press and published by Poetose Notebooks. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover of this beautiful 4" x 6" 50-page notebook features a lovely 1861 map of the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Here is some of the theory behind the beauty and potential of a blank page: "A person can get lost trying to find a home in herself--but then you simply begin to go on as one must go on, and maybe you say a little something to yourself every once in a while just to practice being with words, meeting silence, meeting yourself again, and maybe you frequent empty rooms to familiarize yourself with the meaning of space as in a blank page, and yourself in it, and maybe you scribble like this will help you come home to yourself, but eventually you fit things together, and what made no sense finds its way into something plausible by virtue of its sheer existence." Image source: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Book STREETWISE NEW ORLEANS MAP

Download or read book STREETWISE NEW ORLEANS MAP written by MICHELIN. and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish New Orleans

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Eugene Rodriguez
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2021-03-17
  • ISBN : 0807174890
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Spanish New Orleans written by John Eugene Rodriguez and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808. His work questions that of earlier historians, who argued that Latin America was fundamentally conservative and complaisant under Bourbon rule. Instead, Spanish New Orleans shows that in the capital of Louisiana, Spanish rulers were slowly losing control of three interwoven aspects of the city: demography, trade, and political discourse. Rodriguez demonstrates how the multiethnic, multilingual population of the city played a central role in encouraging trans-imperial free trade and especially trade with the United States, to the point of economic dependence. This dependence in turn prompted the Bourbon governors in New Orleans to negotiate both economic and political discourse in a city that was steadily moving closer in every way to the United States. Far from being a peripheral city in a peripheral colony, by 1803 New Orleans was reshaping the Spanish empire beyond the comprehension of the Spanish king. Chapters on the city’s foundational merchants, literacy, and the judicial system all point to the unique character of this imperial city on the American periphery. This study marks new methodological paths for historians of Latin America and early U.S. history by making use of enormous data compilations on population, ethnicity, and economics. Rodriguez also analyzes previously ignored eighteenth-century Spanish-language documents, including petitions, postal records, and military rosters, and engages underutilized tools such as signature analysis. Through his use of original sources and innovative methodologies, Rodriguez makes new and intriguing comparisons between New Orleans and other contemporary Spanish imperial cities as well as cities in the then-expanding United States. In Spanish New Orleans, Rodriguez goes beyond simply positioning New Orleans within Spanish imperial history. Taking a broader view, he considers what Spanish New Orleans reveals about the challenges and opportunities faced by the Spanish Bourbon empire, and he sheds light on how a new North American empire could so quickly and easily absorb a Spanish city.

Book Changes in the Air

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleonora Rohland
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2018-10-19
  • ISBN : 178533932X
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Changes in the Air written by Eleonora Rohland and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.

Book The New World Atlas and Gazetteer

Download or read book The New World Atlas and Gazetteer written by P.F. Collier & Son Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: