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Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Greater New Orleans Bridge No.2, Orleans/Jefferson Parishes
Author: The West Bank of Greater New Orleans
Author: Richard CampanellaPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city’s inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and even livestock hub. At one time it was the Gulf South’s St. Louis, boasting a diversified industrial sector as well as a riverine, mercantilist, and agricultural economy. Today the mostly suburban West Bank is proud but not pretentious, pleasant if not prominent, and a distinct, affordable alternative to the more famous neighborhoods of the East Bank. Richard Campanella is the first to examine the West Bank holistically, as a legitimate subregion with its own story to tell. No other part of greater New Orleans has more diverse yet deeply rooted populations: folks who speak in local accents, who exhibit longstanding cultural traits, and, in some cases, who maintain family ownership of lands held since antebellum times—even as immigrants settle here in growing numbers. Campanella demonstrates that West Bankers have had great agency in their own place-making, and he challenges the notion that their story is subsidiary to a more important narrative across the river. The West Bank of Greater New Orleans is not a traditional history, nor a cultural history, but rather a historical geography, a spatial explanation of how the West Bank’s landscape formed: its terrain, environment, land use, jurisdictions, waterways, industries, infrastructure, neighborhoods, and settlement patterns, past and present. The book explores the drivers, conditions, and power structures behind those landscape transformations, using custom maps, aerial images, photographic montages, and a detailed historical timeline to help tell that complex geographical story. As Campanella shows, there is no “greater New Orleans” without its cross-river component. The West Bank is an essential part of this remarkable metropolis.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
Federal Information Processing Standards Publication
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Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1988
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for 1988
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
Book Description
1987 Census of Governments: no. 1. Government organization. no. 2. Popularly elected officials
Author: National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.