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Focus on New Orleans

Hating Bourbon Street

Richard Campanella April 1, 2018 Hating Bourbon Street2018-04-02T08:52:06-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
In this excerpt from this 2014 book Bourbon Street: A History (LSU Press), Tulane geographer Richard Campanella explains the curious cultural phenomenon of hating Bourbon Street—who hates it, why they need you to know they hate it, and what they’re missing when they hate it. Courtesy Places Journal. New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next…
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The Great Footprint Debate, Updated

Richard Campanella March 1, 2018 The Great Footprint Debate, Updated2018-03-01T09:57:22-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
In the tumultuous aftermath of the 2005 Katrina deluge, New Orleanians debated passionately a fundamental geographical question: should the city close down flood-damaged neighborhoods and shrink its urban “footprint” in the interest of environmental sustainability, or does every citizen have a right to return to their home? Tulane geographer Richard Campanella revisits “the Great Footprint…
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Disaster and Response in an Experiment Called New Orleans, 1700s-2000s

Richard Campanella February 1, 2018 Disaster and Response in an Experiment Called New Orleans, 1700s-2000s2018-02-02T10:18:43-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
Courtesy Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Tulane geographer Richard Campanella analyzes three centuries of disasters in New Orleans—storm, flood, fire, plague, war, among others—and how the city has responded, recovered, and transformed. 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…
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The Ozone Belt: How St. Tammany Parish Turned Ecological Services into Good Business—but for the Wrong Reasons

Richard Campanella January 2, 2018 The Ozone Belt: How St. Tammany Parish Turned Ecological Services into Good Business—but for the Wrong Reasons2018-01-02T13:23:41-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
For nearly a century, the piney woods across Lake Pontchartrain came to be known as the Ozone Belt—a ‘brand’ that touted the region’s salubrious environs as a summertime alternative to pestilential New Orleans. And it seemed to work, writes Tulane geographer Richard Campanella—but not for the touted reasons. Courtesy The Times-Picayune (PDF). New Orleans: Place…
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The Accidental Forest

Richard Campanella December 1, 2017 The Accidental Forest2017-12-01T09:53:24-05:00 Focus on New Orleans
Sometimes urbanization misses a spot. Join Tulane geographer Richard Campanella in exploring a relict patch of New Orleans once-vast, now-drained backswamp, today an emerald Eden without a name, surrounded by a million people. Courtesy The Times-Picayune (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,”…
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Beneath New Orleans, a Coastal Barrier Island

Richard Campanella November 1, 2017 Beneath New Orleans, a Coastal Barrier Island2017-11-01T08:58:14-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
Nearly all of New Orleans’s soils were deposited by the Mississippi, but the river itself was guided here in part by a preexisting barrier island formed by the Pearl River. This article by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella, courtesy Louisiana Cultural Vistas, explores the subterranean Pine Island Trend (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next…
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New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level

Richard Campanella October 2, 2017 New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level2017-10-20T14:33:23-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
Everyone has heard that New Orleans is below sea level; locals joke about it with a mix of dark humor and beleaguered pride, and it affects the region’s flood risk and future sustainability in fundamental ways. Yet few people realize that this condition is anthropogenic in its origins, and for the first 170 years of…
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Four Cadastral Fingerprints on the Louisiana Landscape

Richard Campanella September 5, 2017 Four Cadastral Fingerprints on the Louisiana Landscape2017-10-20T14:33:35-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
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…
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Louisiana Topography: Third Lowest, Third Flattest, and Most Interesting

Richard Campanella August 4, 2017 Louisiana Topography: Third Lowest, Third Flattest, and Most Interesting2017-10-20T14:33:47-04:00 Focus on New Orleans
A look at quirks and idiosyncrasies of topographic flatness in "Louisiana Topography: Third Lowest, Third Flattest, and Most Interesting" 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 Gulf Coast,” will feature a series of articles on New…
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