| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Ari Kelman's fine book uses a narrow focus to examine a big question. The topic is not the transformation and adaptation of the New Orleans landscape in general, but rather the ways in which New Orleans residents have used and thought about the two or three miles of riverbank that front the French Quarter and the adjacent districts up and down stream. The theoretical concern is over the different ways this riverbank has been understood and defined as public space. In short, this is primarily a study of urban land-use regulation—recognizing that the particular regulated land in question has fascinating and often unique characteristics. Much of the evidence thus comes from court cases, commercial manifestos, engineering reports, and planning documents.

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