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Originally Posted by Cdnone1
Does anyone have any good books that they could recommend on the area? I would love to read some factual history about this.
Steve
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Yes, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape by Peirce Lewis is a really outstanding history. He shows what you can do by applying physical science to history. He coined the phrase the inevitable city on the impossible site - or something close to that. I put it right up there with a great book on Chicago's history and how its growth drew on the midwest hinterland but cannot remember the name of that one now.
Here is a short intro history that sums up a bit of Lewis.
http://www.madere.com/history.html#003
It all related to a big river not being embayed. ...