Four Cadastral Fingerprints on the Louisiana Landscape
The Louisiana landscape bears the imprints of four cadastral (land surveying) systems, more than nearly any other state, and they reflect and affect local society in profound ways today. By Tulane geographer Richard Campanella, courtesy Louisiana Cultural Vistas (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the…
Cityscapes of the New Orleans Slave Trade
New Orleans formed the nation’s premier slave emporium for most of the years between the 1808 ban on the international slave trade and the outbreak of the Civil War. As Tulane geographer Richard Campanella describes in this two-part article courtesy Preservation in Print Magazine, the slave trade formed a veritable cityscape in New Orleans, as…
Essential Geographies of New Orleans Music
Part 1: Congo Square, Atlantic Exchange, and the Emergence of Jazz New Orleans is a meeting ground. Situated at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, the city connects North America’s most expansive riverine network with the vast Atlantic basin. Its strategic location has long attracted diverse peoples and ideas, whose…
Call for Participation: Geography Career Events 2018
Call for Participation: Geography Career Events AAG ANNUAL MEETING New Orleans, Louisiana April 10–14, 2018 For each of the activities below, the AAG seeks a diverse group of individuals representing a range of employment sectors, organizations, academic and professional backgrounds, and racial/ethnic/gender perspectives. If interested, please send an email to specifying your topic(s) and activity(s)…
Emily Fekete joins AAG as Communications, Education, and Media Specialist
The AAG welcomes Emily Fekete in the new position of Communications, Education, and Media specialist. Prior to the AAG, she was employed as a clinical assistant professor and undergraduate coordinator for the geography department at Oklahoma State University. While at the university, she taught courses in cultural geography, economic geography, and geographies of new media…
The Seduction of Exceptionalism
Most residents, and many scholars, fall under the spell of exceptionalism in deciphering New Orleans. The word “unique” appears regularly in everything from travel literature to journal articles about the city; that all is “different” here forms a cornerstone of civil pride. All well and fine, writes Tulane geographer Richard Campanella, but that finding, if…
Five Chapters in the Geography of New Orleans Architecture, 1700s-2000s
This article, by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella courtesy The Times-Picayune, characterizes New Orleans’ various architectural styles and typologies by nature of their cultural diffusion from various sources regions (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” will feature a series of articles on New…
AAG Staff Participate in Esri Education GIS & User Conferences in San Diego
AAG Staff participated in and exhibited at the annual Esri Education GIS and User Conferences July 8th-14th in San Diego, California. The conferences are a great opportunity for the AAG to conduct outreach to the GIS community, engaging with current AAG members, signing up new AAG members, advertising the Annual Meeting for both attendees and potential exhibitors,…