The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since
the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry,
shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and even
livestock hub. At one time it was the Gulf South's St. Louis,
boasting a diversified industrial sector as well as a riverine,
mercantilist, and agricultural economy. Today the mostly suburban
West Bank is proud but not pretentious, pleasant if not prominent,
and a distinct, affordable alternative to the more famous
neighborhoods of the East Bank. Richard Campanella is the first to
examine the West Bank holistically, as a legitimate subregion with
its own story to tell. No other part of greater New Orleans has
more diverse yet deeply rooted populations: folks who speak in
local accents, who exhibit longstanding cultural traits, and, in
some cases, who maintain family ownership of lands held since
antebellum times- even as immigrants settle here in growing
numbers. Campanella demonstrates that West Bankers have had great
agency in their own placeA -making, and he challenges the notion
that their story is subsidiary to a more important narrative across
the river. The West Bank of Greater New Orleans is not a
traditional history, nor a cultural history, but rather a
historical geography, a spatial explanation of how the West Bank's
landscape formed: its terrain, environment, land use,
jurisdictions, waterways, industries, infrastructure,
neighborhoods, and settlement patterns, past and present. The book
explores the drivers, conditions, and power structures behind those
landscape transformations, using custom maps, aerial images,
photographic montages, and a detailed historical timeline to help
tell that complex geographical story. As Campanella shows, there is
no ""greater New Orleans"" without its crossA -river component. The
West Bank is an essential part of this remarkable metropolis.
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