An unnatural metropolis : wresting New Orleans from nature /
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River, yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forc...
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | Louisiana paperback edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
