Delirious New Orleans : manifesto for an extraordinary American city / Stephen Verderber ; foreword by Kevin Alter.

Main entry:

Verderber, Stephen.

Title & Author:

Delirious New Orleans : manifesto for an extraordinary American city / Stephen Verderber ; foreword by Kevin Alter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

Description:

xii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
A delirious landscape -- Commercial vernacular architecture in New Orleans -- Soul, funk, and hip-hop -- Illusion, delusion, and folly -- Roadside nomadicism and a city's rebirth -- Architecture under siege : a lesson from Katrina for twenty-first-century America.

Summary:

"This book began as a documentary project to capture the idiosyncratic vernacular architecture and artifacts--vintage mom-and-pop businesses, roadside motels, live music clubs, neon signs, wall murals, fast-food joints, and so on--that helped give the city's various "off the beaten tourist path" neighborhoods their unique character. But because so many of these places and artifacts were devastated by Hurricane Katrina, this book has become both a historical record of what existed in the past and a blueprint for what must be rebuilt and restored to retain the city's unique multicultural landscape."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780292717534 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0292717539 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Louisiana New Orleans.
Outsider art Louisiana New Orleans.
Urban renewal Louisiana New Orleans.
City planning Louisiana New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Architecture vernaculaire Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Rénovation urbaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005.
Buildings
City planning
Outsider art
Urban renewal
Vernacular architecture
Stadtplanung
Architektur
Städtebau.
Stadtsanierung.
New Orleans (La.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Louisiana New Orleans
New Orleans, La.
New Orleans.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Added entries:

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264405
Call No.: BIB 195789
Status: Available

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