Draining New Orleans the 300-year quest to dewater the Crescent City
"Draining New Orleans is the first full-length book entirely devoted to one of the world's most challenging drainage problems: the reclamation and drainage of a fluvial delta for the development of the City of New Orleans. Renowned Crescent City geographer and historian Richard Campanella...
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University Press
[2023]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: These Oozy and Muddy Lands
- Adapt or Retreat
- The Ditch-and-Gravity Era, 1720s-1830s
- The Polder-and-Paddle Era, 1830s-1850s
- Plagues and Progress, 1850s-1860s
- Capers and Consequences, 1860s-1870s
- The Progressive Era, 1880s-1890s
- Dewatering New Orleans, 1900s-1910s
- Geographies Rearranged, 1910s-1920s
- Drainage Becomes a Utility, 1920s-1950s
- The Feds Wade In, 1960s-1990s
- The Only Thing That Can Mess Us Up, Early 2000s
- Rewatering New Orleans, 2010s-2020s