Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former
swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an" impossible …

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's
most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play …

Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of
the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of …

Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley—especially in New Orleans, the
region's largest metropolis—has produced profound and dramatic environmental change …

STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner
of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the …

To those of us who look at Los Angeles and see no sense at all, Landscapes of Desire offers
a vivid and rewarding account of the particular visions that drove the period of Anglo …

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the LA canon
as anything that... Joan Didion wrote in the seventies”(New Yorker) No metropolis has been …

Nonstop Metropolis, Êthe culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable
unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative …

Nothing else damages the earth's environment more than our cities. As the world's
population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment …

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the
great" what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story …