Author: Wisconsin. State Highway CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Biennial Report - Highway Commission
Author: Wisconsin. State Highway CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Biennial Review of the Supreme Tent, Knights of the Maccabees of the World
Author: Knights of the Maccabees of the World. Supreme TentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Informational Bulletin
Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Biennial Review of the Supreme Hive, Ladies of the Maccabees of the World
Author: Ladies of the MaccabeesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1812
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Author: An Unnatural Metropolis
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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 forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000. Before the city could swell in size and commercial importance as its nineteenth-century boosters envisioned, builders had to wrest it from its waterlogged site, protect it from floods, expel disease, and supply basic services using local resources. Colten shows how every manipulation of the environment made an impact on the city's social geography as well - often with unequal, adverse consequences for minorities - and how each still requires maintenance and improvement today. For example, while the massive levee system has controlled the unpredictable Mississippi, it also captures heavy down-pours, creating a new set of internal flood problems. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nat
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Publications
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description