Book Analysis

Book Analysis

Introduction

Peirce Lewis's New Orleans is the best introduction in print to any American city. Much more than a great local guidebook, it is also a model for understanding American cities in general. Using witty, engaging, and accessible text and illustrations, Lewis directs our attention to the large-scale processes that affect New Orleans, as well as to how those processes are linked to what we can see in the everyday streets and buildings of the city.

Book Analysis

A city of legend, a legendary geographer, and a landscape loved by America's legions of place-cherishers: These come together in Peirce ...