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Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet located atop a past swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis named an "impossible but unavoidable city". How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between your mutual and frequently contradictory causes of characteristics and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces designed adjustments to New Orleans's environment from 1800 to 2000 and demonstrates that, though all metropolitan areas must contend with their physical settings, New Orleans may be the city most reliant on human-induced transformations of its precarious site. In a new preface, Colten shows how Hurricane Katrina exemplifies the shortcoming of human being artifice to exclude characteristics from metropolitan areas and he urges city planners to keep the environment at heart as they contemplate New Orleans's future. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed metropolitan areas as the antithesis of characteristics, but in An Unnatural Metropolis, Colten introduces a crucial environmental point of view to the annals of urban areas. His work provides an in-depth check out a city and population uniquely shaped by the natural causes it has wanted to harness.
