Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City Campanella Richard
Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City Campanella Richard In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage problem,"…
Specifikacia Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City Campanella Richard
Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City Campanella Richard
In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage problem," renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to "reclaim" the city's swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion.The study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps.