Presents a detailed survey of New Orleans' built environment. This is an authoritative, comprehensive, post-Hurricane Katrina overview of buildings, neighbourhoods, and landscapes, telling the city's compelling and fascinating story though concise discussions of nearly 300 architecturally significant structures, open spaces, and lesser-known places, enhanced by 175 photographs and 23 maps.

Presents a detailed survey of New Orleans' built environment. This is an authoritative, comprehensive, post-Hurricane Katrina overview of buildings, neighbourhoods, and landscapes, telling the city's compelling and fascinating story though concise discussions of nearly 300 architecturally significant structures, open spaces, and lesser-known places, enhanced by 175 photographs and 23 maps.

Landscape Fascinations and Provocations reflects and builds on the work of Robert B. Riley (1931–2019), emphasizing his ongoing importance for landscape studies and landscape architecture. The title of the volume represents an attempt to distill Riley's attitude and approach. The book's core consists of fourteen essays—six seminal pieces by Riley alternating with eight new pieces by other authors, each relating to Riley's work in a different way. Riley's singular and important voice survives in his writing: lean, straightforward, erudite, clever, wryly observant, provocative, accessible,...