Title:
Unfathomable city : a New Orleans atlas / by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker ; cartographers, Richard Campanella, Ben Pease, Jakob Rosenzweig, Molly Roy, Shizue Seigel.
Author:
Solnit, Rebecca, author.
Snedeker, Rebecca, author.
Campanella, Richard, cartographer.
Pease, Ben, cartographer.
Rosenzweig, Jakob, cartographer.
Roy, Molly, cartographer.
Seigel, Shizue, cartographer.
Publication Information:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]
©2013
Call Number:
G1364 .N5 S6 2013
Abstract:
"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 New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors' compelling contributions. Featuring 22 full-color two-page-spread maps, Unfathomable City plumbs the depths of this major tourist destination, pivotal scene of American history and culture and, most recently, site of monumental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. The innovative maps' precision and specificity shift our notions of the Mississippi, the Caribbean, Mardi Gras, jazz, soils and trees, generational roots, and many other subjects, and expand our ideas of how any city is imagined and experienced. Together with the inspired texts, they show New Orleans as both an imperiled city-by erosion, crime, corruption, and sea level rise-and an ageless city that lives in music as a form of cultural resistance. Compact, lively, and completely original, Unfathomable City takes readers on a tour that will forever change the way they think about place."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780520274037
9780520274044
Physical Description:
166 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
General Note:
Maps with accompanying essays.
Contents:
Sinking in and reaching out -- A city in time : La Nouvelle-Orléans over 300 years How New Orleans happened / Ebb and flow : migrations of the houma, erosions of the coast Southward into the vanishing lands / People who Here they come, there they go / Moves, remains : hiding and seeking the dead Bodies / Stationary revelations : sites of contemplation and delight On a strange island / Oil and water : extracting petroleum, exterminating nature Of levees and prisons : failures of containment, surges of freedom Lockdown Louisiana / Civil rights and lemon ice : three lives in the old city The presence of the past / Sugar heaven and sugar hell : pleasures and brutalities of a commodity No sweetness is light / ¡Bananas! Fruits' fortunes at the gate of the Tropics / Hot and steamy : selling seafood, selling sex Salacious and crustaceous / The Mississippi is (not) the Nile : Arab New Orleans, real and imagined The ibis-headed god of New Orleans / The line-up : live oak corridors and carnival parade routes Sentinals and celebrants / Repercussions : rhythm and resistance across the Atlantic "It enriches my spirit to be linked to such a deep and far-reaching piece of what this universe is" : a conversation with Herreast Harrison and Donald Harrison, Jr. -- Thirty-nine Sundays : social aid and pleasure clubs take it to the streets Rollin' wid it / Bass lines : deep sounds and soils The floating cushion : George Porter Jr. on the city's low end Where dey at : Bounce calls up a vanished city A home in song / Snakes and ladders : what rose up, what fell down during Hurricane Katrina Nothing was foreordained / St. Claude Avenue : loss and recovery on an inner-city artery The beginning of this road / Juju and cuckoo : taking care of crazy Holding it together, falling apart / Lead and lies : mouths full of poison Charting and territories of untruth / Waterland The cement lily pad
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