New Orleans, Delta City
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- River Cities, City Rivers, 2018, Volume 39 of Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture Series pp. 185 - 214
- Issue Date:
- 2018-06
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Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city’s success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-building reshapes rivers and their landscapes. Cities have harnessed, modified, and engineered rivers, altering ecologies and creating new landscapes in the process of urbanization. Rivers are also shaped by the development of cities as urban landscapes, just as the cities are shaped by their relationship to the river. In the river city, the city river is a dynamic contributor to the urban landscape with its flow of urban economies, geographies, and cultures. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. Building on emerging interest in the resilience of cities, this book and the original symposium consider river cities and city rivers to explore how histories have shaped the present and how they might inform our visions of the future.
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