Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of eight books about New Orleans, including Bourbon Street: A History, Bienville's Dilemma, and Geographies of New Orleans. A two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella has also received the Louisiana Library Association's Literary Award, the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, and the Monroe Fellowship from Tulane's New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.
In Cityscapes of New Orleans, Richard Campanella applies his extraordinary knowledge of and enthusiasm for New Orleans to a detailed and illuminating chronicle of places and architectural types and styles within many of the city's seventy-three named neighborhoods. He is a spry, articulate, popular scholar who intrigues by tracing these spaces through geography, history, and social culture. He explains that beyond the city's marshy soil, three elements--hurricanes, yellow fever, and fire--have controlled New Orleans's development, underscoring the roles of disasters and recovery. A glance at the extensive table of contents confirms that this is a smorgasbord of regional and urban evolutions that will appeal to a plethora of readers nationwide.--Mary Louise Christovich, chair, board of directors, Historic New Orleans Collection
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