Richard Campanella

A study comparing images of New Orleans in 2007 and 2016 found a striking increase in the number of people (and bicycles) occupying public space.

The focus on Make It Right might suggest that contemporary residential architecture is typical of post-Katrina New Orleans. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Resuscitating the Mississippi Delta with river diversions and sediment siphons would be the world’s largest coastal restoration project. But it could happen.

Call it the Federal Flood or the Levee Failure of 2005 — just don’t call it Katrina! How we talk about a disaster so big we can’t agree on its name.

A geographer upbraids the Bourbon Street haters and scrutinizes the politics of authenticity in New Orleans.

The promethean geo-engineering of our river systems has resulted in the catastrophic erosion of American coasts. What can be done?

As the Gulf Coast has been hit by one hurricane after another, its residents have gained a rigorous — if unwilling — place-based education. But the toughest test is still to come.

A geographer recalls the long hot summer of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster — and the high price New Orleans is paying for America’s appetite for oil.

The second installment in a two-part series examines the passionate debate about how to rebuild New Orleans and prevent future disaster.

The first installment in a two-part essay on post-Katrina New Orleans offers a precise narrative of the environmental engineering that made catastrophe inevitable.