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0415947839 978-0415947831 October 29, 2005 New edition

This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice.


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Barbara Eckstein is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on urban planning and sustainability for MIT Press. She published her first book with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1990.

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One of New Orleans's many informal historians begins her 1973 outsider's guide with a description of signage "mercilessly bludgeoning" the tourist entering the city. Read the first page
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arterial plan, riverfront expressway, regional folkways, trolley coaches, last madam, spirit region, local folkways, electric rail systems, casebook example, marie laveau, temporal remoteness, parish prison, motor buses, desire line, city archives, voodoo queen, protest tradition
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Baton Rouge, French Quarter, United States, New York, Vieux Carré, New Orleanians, Standard Oil, African American, Garden District, Mardi Gras, World War, Pointe du Lac, Anne Rice, Mississippi River, Civil War, Mayor Morrison, Aunt Emily, The Moviegoer, Gulf Coast, Old South, Bourbon Street, Golden Arm, Basin Street, Canal Street, City Edges
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