New Orleans: the making of an urban landscape

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 41-2385-41-2385
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Landscape

New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape by Pierce F. Lewis

Arris ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-67
Author(s):  
Mary Ruffin Hanbury
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Landscape

New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
Alecia P. Long
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Landscape

Interstitial Urban Space

Sweet Spots ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Scott Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Urban Conditions

The street grid of New Orleans is uniquely configured relative to its unusual geography and 19th century settlement patterns. The method for creating an ordered street system adjacent to the dramatic undulations of the Mississippi River is as intricate and variable as the landscape itself. A combination of factors from the land-use patterns of plantations to the conflicting geometries of orderly grids and irregular curves conspired to produce the intelligible though complex urban landscape of New Orleans and a unique urban morphology. The order of streets and avenues in New Orleans produces nearly as many urban anomalies as it does regular ones and the building stock of the city often struggles to adapt to the irregularities of the “system.” These unique urban conditions were formed over the course of a century, yielding useful slivers of accidental public space and secret, interstitial worlds of compact living.

scholarly journals New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-117
Author(s):  
Dean Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Landscape
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