A New Look at New Orleans

This month marks the publication of Tulane geographer Richard Campanella's third book about the City of New Orleans. Entitled Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006), Campanella says this book is the most thorough of the three he has written about the Crescent City.

"While my previous books were more about physical geography, this book focuses more on people--on ethnic geographies," Campanella says. "It explains why people lived where they did in the city, over time."

Campanella is associate director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities and a research professor in the earth and environmental sciences department. A geographer by training, Campanella conducts his investigations through archival research, by mapping out historical census data, and by exploring the streets of New Orleans on bicycle or foot.

from Tulane Daily News