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Space and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1, 23-25 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331205283735
© 2006 SAGE Publications

On Flexible Urbanism

Geoff Manaugh

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Nicola Twilley

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The Atlantean fate of New Orleans was, in large part, a factor of its architecture. Through an over-reliance on urban fortifications—levees, bulwarks, and other rigid, literally military defenses built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—New Orleans lost all flexibility to act as its surrounding landscape returned to a state of hydrological dynamism.

Key Words: New Orleans • Hurricane Katrina • flexible urbanism • military hydrology • landscape engineering


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