GEOG 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Basin Street Blues, Conservation Movement, Natural Disaster
25 Jan 2019
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October 3rd: political ecology of urban environmental hazards. Basin street is that where all the white and black folk meet in new orleans, and it"s where the. New orleans is a place for mixing and mingling of white, black, and aboriginals. Basin street blues is also the title of craig colten"s paper in the journal of historical geography. He is based at lsu in baton rouge, where people fled to from hurricane katrina, making it the largest new orleans city for a period of time. Colten is one of the us"s several active environmental historians. He has chronicled the historical dump sites in illinois, told the story of filling the chicago waterfront, and more. Colten"s paper: drainage work in new orleans happens in the context of. The progressive era; a period of: efforts to conserve forests, flood control, the conservation movement, immigration (peak 1913/1914, urban reform in terms of government, policing, and anti corruption.
