Main entry:

Busquets, Joan.

Title & Author:

New Orleans : strategies for a city in soft land / Joan Busquets in collaboration with Felipe Correa ; [forewords by Alan Altshuler, Rudolf Machado].

Publication:

[Cambridge] : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design ; Ecuador : Imprenta Mariscal, 2005.

Description:

179 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 x 28 cm

Notes:
"This material, generated (as part of the New Orleans Studio) during the 2004-2005 academic year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with the support of the Tulane School of Architecture, precedes Hurricane Katrina"--Front flap.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179).
Framework. Felipe Correa ; Ila Berman ; W. Elysse Newman -- Territory. Hydrology ; Storms ; Wetlands ; Meander ; Levee ; River basin -- Containment. Floodplan ; Expansion ; River edge ; River morphology -- Movement. Base ; Drainage / pumping ; Primary road network ; Rail infrastructure ; Fluvial activity ; Elevated freeways and roads ; Summation -- Fragmentation. Regional fragmentation ; Arpent ; Plantation to urbanization ; Cut -- Scan. Topography ; Grid ; Grain ; Network ; Field + Wavefronts ; Edge + Boundary -- Strategies -- Harvard design school students -- Tulane school of architecture students.

Summary:

"This material, generated (as part of the New Orleans Studio) during the 2004-2005 academic year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with the support of the Tulane School of Architecture, precedes Hurricane Katrina."--Front flap.

ISBN:

0935617922
9780935617924

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology) Louisiana New Orleans.
Land use Louisiana New Orleans.
Flood control Louisiana New Orleans.
Landscape assessment Louisiana New Orleans.
City planning Louisiana New Orleans.
Architecture Louisiana New Orleans.
Civic improvement Louisiana New Orleans.
Écologie urbaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Utilisation du sol Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Inondations Maîtrise Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Paysages Évaluation Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Villes Aménagement et assainissement Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Architecture.
Buildings.
City planning.
Civic improvement.
Flood control.
Land use.
Landscape assessment.
Regulation of rivers and lakes.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Mississippi River Regulation.
New Orleans (La.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New Orleans (La.) Aerial photographs.
Mississippi (Fleuve) Régularisation.
Louisiana New Orleans.
Mississippi River.

Form/genre:

Aerial photographs.

Added entries:

Correa, Felipe.
Altshuler, Alan A., 1936-
Machado, Rudolf.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.
Tulane University. School of Architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294590
Call No.: BIB 240260
Status: Available