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Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape

Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Stephen A. Mills Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (Designed by Henk van Assen) (2001) Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 176 pp. 180 b/w + 104 colourplates Americans have made the desert bloom, and now ex- scholarship that synthesises myriad perspectives, crea- tract oil from Alaska’s North Slope. Are there no ting what must surely be a work of art in its own right, environmental constraints they cannot raise? One of even while challenging all concerned to take a fresh the New Deal’s greatest legacies must be the evident look at assumptions, experiences, and expectations. power of river management, whether in the Tennessee This study of the river will gladden the hearts of all Valley, the Columbia Basin, or the Colorado. Indeed those who have long realised that landscape is not just such has been the success of these projects that copy-cat an environmental topology, being more than geology schemes are evident across the Mississippi Basin, pro- plus hydrology, but a dynamic matrix of powerful and viding flood control, recreation, and navigation, the interacting forces and images. The river is a geographi- latter often being the rationale which enables federal cal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape

Mills, Stephen A.
Landscapes , Volume 3 (1): 2 – Apr 1, 2002
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Stephen A. Mills Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha (Designed by Henk van Assen) (2001) Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 176 pp. 180 b/w + 104 colourplates Americans have made the desert bloom, and now ex- scholarship that synthesises myriad perspectives, crea- tract oil from Alaska’s North Slope. Are there no ting what must surely be a work of art in its own right, environmental constraints they cannot raise? One of even while challenging all concerned to take a fresh the New Deal’s greatest legacies must be the evident look at assumptions, experiences, and expectations. power of river management, whether in the Tennessee This study of the river will gladden the hearts of all Valley, the Columbia Basin, or the Colorado. Indeed those who have long realised that landscape is not just such has been the success of these projects that copy-cat an environmental topology, being more than geology schemes are evident across the Mississippi Basin, pro- plus hydrology, but a dynamic matrix of powerful and viding flood control, recreation, and navigation, the interacting forces and images. The river is a geographi- latter often being the rationale which enables federal cal

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