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Geography
01.28.13: Richard Campanella
Beneficial Use: Toward Balancing America's (Sediment) BudgetOn Places, Richard Campanella argues that the promethean geo-engineering of our river systems has resulted in the catastrophic erosion of our coasts — and proposes one potential solution.
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01.17.13: Jill Desimini
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape ImaginaryOn Places, landscape architect Jill Desimini explores a range of cartographic practices, from a medieval map of the British Isles to contemporary data visualization.
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10.19.12: Josh Wallaert
CountrymenOn Places, a poem by Josh Wallaert, from the chapbook A Guide to the Northwest Territory.
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10.11.12: Richard Campanella
What the Nation’s Best-Educated Amateur Planners Learned from Hurricane Isaac. And Gustav. And Rita and Katrina. And Cindy, Ivan, Lili, Isidore, and Georges.On Places, geographer Richard Campanella analyzes the many lessons that New Orleanians have learned from weathering powerful hurricanes — and he argues that the toughest test is yet to come.
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09.04.12: James Barilla
The Vernacular of DisasterOn Places, in the midst of storm season, James Barilla explores the links between place, weather and disaster, and the increasingly global language of environmental catastrophe.
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10.13.11: Denis Wood
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative AtlasOn Places, geographer Denis Wood and his landscape architecture students map the ordinary, everyday things of a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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03.21.11: Kristi Dykema Cheramie
The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi RiverOn Places, Kristi Dykema Cheramie explores the ruins of the abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model and ponders the decades-long battle to control the great river.
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03.17.11: John Mann
Folded in PlaceOn Places, a portfolio of images by photographer John Mann, showing artful deconstructions and reconstructions of maps.
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03.10.11: Tim Culvahouse
Black in Back: Mardi Gras and the Racial Geography of New OrleansOn Places, Tim Culvahouse charts the complex racial geography of New Orleans (and looks in on the Rex and Zulu Mardi Gras parades).
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09.07.10: Richard Campanella
New Fuel for an Old Narrative: Notes on the BP Oil DisasterOn Places, geographer Richard Campanella recalls a long hot summer, and sets the BP oil spill into the complex environmental and cultural contexts of America's third coast.
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04.01.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: AfterOn Places, the second of a two-part essay by Richard Campanella, on the ongoing struggles of New Orleans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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03.29.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: BeforeOn Places, an excerpt from Delta Urbanism: New Orleans, geographer Richard Campanella's account of the ongoing environmental and political struggles of post-Katrina New Orleans — and why a great American city remains pathetically vulnerable to further catastrophe.
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10.13.09: Dorothy Ball
Bienville's DilemmaNew Orleans-based writer Dorothy Ball reviews Richard Campanella's Bienville's Dilemma, a panoramic study of the history and geography of New Orleans that spans from the early 16th century to Hurricane Katrina and its troubled aftermath.
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