{"title":"Richard Campanella","description":"Richard Campanella is a geographer and associate dean for research at the Tulane School of Architecture. He is the author of fourteen books, including The West Bank of Greater New Orleans and Cityscapes of New Orleans, as well as hundreds of articles on Louisiana history and geography.","products":[{"product_id":"draining-new-orleans-the-300-year-quest-to-dewater-the-crescent-city-hardcover","title":"Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Draining New Orleans, \u003c\/i\u003e the first full-length book devoted to \"the world's toughest drainage problem,\" renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to \"reclaim\" the city's swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank of New Orleans. What transpired in the years and decades that followed can only be understood by examining the large swath of history dating back two centuries earlier--to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta--and extending through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe consequences of dewatering New Orleans proved both triumphant and tragic. The city's engineering prowess transformed it into a world leader in drainage technology, yet the municipality also fell victim to its own success. Rather than a story about mud and machinery, this is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of determined and sometimes unsavory individuals who spearheaded projects to separate water from dirt, creating lucrative opportunities in the process not only for the community but also for themselves.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366134251743,"sku":"9780807178546","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vEwvXqbNB79780807178546.webp?v=1789084344"},{"product_id":"nocturnal-new-orleans-hardcover","title":"Nocturnal New Orleans - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night--that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during \"the witching hour.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Crescent City, but the nightly sparkle of illumination also showcases its ethereal and enduring beauty. Through hundreds of nighttime photographs taken in the streets and from the air, \u003ci\u003eNocturnal New Orleans \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures this mythological magic--even as it argues that the mystique is neither mythical nor magical, but stems from a rational awareness rooted in history, geography, economics, and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith photographs by Marco Rasi and text by Richard Campanella, \u003ci\u003eNocturnal New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the jewel-like beauty of the Crescent City in darkness. Its stunning photographs demonstrate that the city's allure is not merely construed or illusory; rather, it was born among transients in a diverse port city, at the nexus of a vast hinterland and a global foreland, where anonymity intersected with desire and opportunity. It began over three centuries ago, and it will continue this very evening, after nightfall, during the witching hour.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368265875679,"sku":"9780807182611","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K7LcVKlmQP9780807182611.webp?v=1789125142"},{"product_id":"crossroads-cutoffs-and-confluences-origins-of-louisiana-cities-towns-and-villages-hardcover","title":"Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Campanella's \u003ci\u003eCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences\u003c\/i\u003e tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities, towns, and villages where most Louisianians live now. Campanella illuminates why these communities formed where they did, be they at river confluences, forks, crossroads, heads of navigation, ferry landings, shortcuts, portages, resource-extraction sites, or railroad stations, and explores other spatial factors that initially attracted settlers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of these \u003ci\u003eraisons d'être\u003c\/i\u003e have faded into the past. People no longer settle in Alexandria, for example, on account of the Red River rapids; nor do they reside in Breaux Bridge because of Breaux's footbridge over Bayou Teche, or in Cut Off because its canal cut off days of arduous travel. Nevertheless, residents of those communities can trace \u003ci\u003eevery movement of their lives\u003c\/i\u003e to those forgotten reckonings, made at a time when history cast those geographies as critical to the comings and goings of their forebears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers curious about the origins of Louisiana's cities, towns, and villages can turn to \u003ci\u003eCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences\u003c\/i\u003e for answers to that most fundamental question of human geography: Why are we here?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368468119775,"sku":"9780807183687","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iEzhEq8n219780807183687.webp?v=1789128478"},{"product_id":"crossroads-cutoffs-and-confluences-origins-of-louisiana-cities-towns-and-villages-paperback","title":"Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Campanella's \u003ci\u003eCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences\u003c\/i\u003e tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities, towns, and villages where most Louisianians live now. Campanella illuminates why these communities formed where they did, be they at river confluences, forks, crossroads, heads of navigation, ferry landings, shortcuts, portages, resource-extraction sites, or railroad stations, and explores other spatial factors that initially attracted settlers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of these \u003ci\u003eraisons d'être\u003c\/i\u003e have faded into the past. People no longer settle in Alexandria, for example, on account of the Red River rapids; nor do they reside in Breaux Bridge because of Breaux's footbridge over Bayou Teche, or in Cut Off because its canal cut off days of arduous travel. Nevertheless, residents of those communities can trace \u003ci\u003eevery movement of their lives\u003c\/i\u003e to those forgotten reckonings, made at a time when history cast those geographies as critical to the comings and goings of their forebears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers curious about the origins of Louisiana's cities, towns, and villages can turn to \u003ci\u003eCrossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences\u003c\/i\u003e for answers to that most fundamental question of human geography: Why are we here?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368471560415,"sku":"9780807185100","price":37.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yjUZoe5vrc9780807185100.webp?v=1789128485"},{"product_id":"above-new-orleans-roofscapes-of-the-crescent-city-hardcover","title":"Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, \u003ci\u003e Above New Orleans \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, from the French Quarter to Uptown, from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, from Westwego to New Orleans East, and from Gentilly to Gretna. A detailed description accompanies each image, providing insight into the history, geography, and architecture of this dazzling municipality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs this volume demonstrates, the vantage points afforded by the drone-mounted camera reveal fascinating views otherwise unobtainable in the often compact environment of New Orleans. \"To me a roofscape is the\u003ci\u003e tout ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e of urban elements,\" writes Richard Campanella in the book's preface, \"particularly in dense neighborhoods, visible from a perch that is high enough to be synoptical, yet low enough to be intimate. Roofscapes are the intermediary between the more familiar concepts of streetscapes and landscapes; they are the oblique, three-dimensional renderings of cityscapes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCapturing these views of New Orleans required the specialized equipment and expertise of retired Italian engineer Marco Rasi, who has mastered the new technology of drone photography in his adopted hometown. His adept piloting and keen eye made for, in Rasi's words, \"the perfect platform to capture those rooftop perspectives I had always savored, as no aircraft or helicopter could ever do.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbove New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City \u003c\/i\u003ebeautifully documents the aesthetic wonder of the city's singular urban landscape.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369765273823,"sku":"9780807176061","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I9vgjjmtS9780807176061.webp?v=1789146149"},{"product_id":"the-photojournalism-of-del-hall-new-orleans-and-beyond-1950s-2000s-hardcover","title":"The Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s-2000s - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDel Hall stands as one of the few journalists able to chart their careers through the milestones and icons of the late twentieth century -- the civil rights movement, Vatican II, the Beatles' arrival in the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, the1968 Chicago Riots, the Vietnam War, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. Hall's humble beginnings on the gritty downtown streets of Depression-era New Orleans proved an ample launching pad for a six-decade profession documenting key moments in world affairs, all while staying ahead of the many technological shifts that revolutionized news media. \u003cbr\u003eWith the aid of previously unpublished photographs and stills, critically acclaimed geographer and author Richard Campanella turns the focus around to the Emmy Award--winning photojournalist and presents the life of a quiet observer who captured critical episodes in American history. From Hall's start in New Orleans at WWL-TV covering lunch-counter sit-ins and the integration of schools in the Ninth Ward to his lauded work for CBS News, filming Walter Cronkite, 60 Minutes, and Charles Kuralt, Campanella commemorates Hall's remarkable contributions to journalism as the field expanded from print to television.\u003cbr\u003eThis visually captivating and lively biography follows Hall as he is chased by the Ku Klux Klan, shot at by the Viet Cong, journeys to Moscow to cover President Nixon's historic visit, and almost dies in a helicopter crash at the America's Cup race. Campanella traces the life of a tireless documentarian and pioneer who not only photographed history as it happened, but also filmed one of the first full-color TV documentaries and redefined nonlinear computerized editing.\u003cbr\u003eThe Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s--2000s serves as a testament to the immense impact of the oft-overlooked and uncredited role of the cameraman, rightfully placing Del Hall in the vanguard of the profession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377770037471,"sku":"9780807160664","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8EmEQJOGWm9780807160664.webp?v=1789240152"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/richard-campanella.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}