French Quarter New Orleans: reading the street plan beyond its busiest blocks
The French Quarter’s streets combine an early grid with buildings shaped by fires, colonial transitions and later adaptation.
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Explore the neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings of New Orleans through 8 articles.
Jackson Square: how a square connects river, church and city
Jackson Square’s composition brings together religious, civic, residential and commemorative buildings from different periods.
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French Market New Orleans: the changing uses of a historic market district
The French Market developed as a sequence of food-trading buildings and later redevelopment projects along the river.
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Garden District New Orleans: a neighborhood understood through streets, lots and houses
Lot sizes, front gardens and successive building campaigns explain more of this New Orleans neighborhood than a checklist of famous residents.
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St Louis Cathedral New Orleans: a landmark within the ensemble around Jackson Square
The cathedral’s familiar silhouette combines a long religious presence with a largely nineteenth-century building.
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Lafitte Greenway: following a former transport corridor through neighborhoods
A canal and railway corridor now provides a different kind of connection across New Orleans.
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum: what a narrow building can explain about local commercial history
The museum’s rooms and courtyard reveal how a shop, a household and later collections occupy the same address.
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Congo Square: a public place whose cultural history needs careful attention
Congo Square connects a particular piece of ground to the survival and transformation of African diasporic culture.