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Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther
Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther
History Faculty Publications
This paper examines the emergence, development and abandonment of ‘new town’ communities in eastern New Orleans in the half century after 1957. Containing about two-thirds of the land area in the New Orleans city limits, much of it wrested from swamps using emerging drainage technologies, eastern New Orleans promised municipal leaders, planners and citizens an alternative to crowded city and sprawling suburb. This paper also considers how planners and many local citizens viewed planned communities in the eastern stretches of the city as an antidote to population exodus from New Orleans. It explores the influences, design characteristics, social planning aspirations …
Building And Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, And Transformation, J. Souther
Building And Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, And Transformation, J. Souther
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Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther
Into The Big League - Conventions, Football, And The Color Line In New Orleans, J. Mark Souther
History Faculty Publications
This article examines the relationship between the struggle for African American civil rights and efforts to expand tourism, conventions, and spectator sports in New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1954 and 1969. Drawing on previously neglected archival sources and personal interviews, it considers how the pressure to maintain New Orleans's progressive image as an urbane tourist destination required abandoning Jim Crow customs and embracing the growing national commitment to racial progress. It argues that an unlikely coalition of civil rights activists, tourism interests, municipal officials, and a small segment of New Orleans's old-line social establishment adopted a tourism-related rhetoric to counter the …
Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther
Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther
History Faculty Publications
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