A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Ari Y. Kelman
Publisher: University of California Press

Jan 27, 2013 - Four vent wells are now removing 34,000 cubic feet per day of natural gas from a reservoir of 50 million to 100 million cubic feet of gas underlying the communities. Sep 12, 2013 - Top Cities for the Cultural Traveler: New York City Throughout his career, photographer Edward Burtynsky has been on a quest to capture the impact humans have on the natural landscape. New As the river reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it slows down and creates a fan of sediment or what is commonly known as a delta. With this alignment comes the memories of a ley alignment that connects New Orleans with a sequence of east coast cities. From spaces, the natural world, the animal world, and our own bodies, and all these things can also represent each other — thus roads have shoulders and mountains have foothills and rivers have heads and coasts have headlands. In the 1930s, after a flood protection barrier was in place, the city could now extend its streets to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Then, “Edward Burtynsky – Water,” a 60-plus piece exhibition organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art will make the first stop of a multi-site tour at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, from October 5 to January 19, 2014. Thjorsá River #1, Iceland 2012. For sure Natural landscaping can be considered a city's Achilles' heel when it is faced with an oncoming hurricane. May 11, 2011 - From swarms of deadly tornadoes to record flooding and tinderbox drought conditions, it seems that Mother Nature threw everything in her arsenal against the Lower-48 States during April, with impacts continuing into May. A bulge of water is now making its way down the Mississippi River towards Louisiana, where levees protecting New Orleans will be put to the test. The combination of a weather pattern associated What's the Status of Mississippi River Flooding? Aug 8, 2013 - She also has a book forthcoming on November 4, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (University of California Press), co-edited with Rebecca Snedeker, that lyrically and graphically explores the body politic of New Orleans, and . Jun 30, 2006 - New Orleans has the cards stacked against it when it comes to natural disaster defense. A simple visual of this dynamic interplay is shown in the only west-east course of the river draping its burial shroud over the arms of New Orleans compass rose.