| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2003. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.

Ari Kelman has written a compelling account of New Orleans's environmental history. Set in an inhospitable location, the Crescent City offers a superb place to examine a waterfront produced both by human and nonhuman forces. Kelman exposes the "historically contingent, culturally constructed, and material" (p. 13) aspects of the city's riparian public space. Using key episodes in the riverfront's nearly 300-year development, he argues that "public space and nature remain a vital part of urban America, alive if not always well" (p. 8).

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