Chicago and New Orleans: opposite ends of a great river

Chicago and New Orleans: opposite ends of a great river

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This paper considers the contrasting and deliberate efforts to reshape the Tluvial futures of two important American cities which essentially re-wrote their riparian heritages.Chicago’s aggressive extension of its commercial Hayward C-Spa XI Parts reach through its artiTicial connection with the Mississippi has become embodied in its environmental, political, and literary history.Conversely, New Orleans crafted a defensive local culture in Vape Pen Batteries its environmental history, politics, and literature.The contrasting investments in river-altering infrastructure and urban relationships with the one river expose the signiTicance of each city’s position within a watershed and in shaping its respective cultural history and its identity.