New Orleans, Coastal City

Mossop, E

New Orleans, Coastal City

Mossop, E

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Publisher:: CRC Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning, 2019, 1st Edition, pp. 223 - 238
Issue Date:: 2019

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dc.contributor.author	Mossop, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-7022	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Mossop, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-7022	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning, 2019, 1st Edition, pp. 223 - 238	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0429856571	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780429856570	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133803
dc.description.abstract	The very existence of New Orleans has historically been defined by its relationship to water. The city was founded at a key strategic location on the Mississippi, where it controlled military and trade access to the river. Nevertheless, today the city has a deeply troubled relationship with water. Within the city, continuing subsidence increases the city’s vulnerability to flooding. Outside the city limits, the coastal land loss threatens the very existence of the city in the next 100 years. As the coast moves inland, it creates confusion about what is coast and what is lake and where the city could exist. While not yet clearly perceived, the city is now truly coastal and connected directly to the Gulf of Mexico through its eastern shore, on the formerly enclosed Lake Borgne, now open to the Gulf. The entire map of the coast has changed and our understanding of the relationship between land and sea needs to catch up to reality (Figure 14.1).	en_US
dc.publisher	CRC Press	en_US
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dc.title	New Orleans, Coastal City	en_US
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Abstract:

The very existence of New Orleans has historically been defined by its relationship to water. The city was founded at a key strategic location on the Mississippi, where it controlled military and trade access to the river. Nevertheless, today the city has a deeply troubled relationship with water. Within the city, continuing subsidence increases the city’s vulnerability to flooding. Outside the city limits, the coastal land loss threatens the very existence of the city in the next 100 years. As the coast moves inland, it creates confusion about what is coast and what is lake and where the city could exist. While not yet clearly perceived, the city is now truly coastal and connected directly to the Gulf of Mexico through its eastern shore, on the formerly enclosed Lake Borgne, now open to the Gulf. The entire map of the coast has changed and our understanding of the relationship between land and sea needs to catch up to reality (Figure 14.1).

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