TY - BOOK AU - Mathur,Anuradha AU - Cunha,Dilip da TI - Mississippi Floods: designing a shifting landscape. SN - 0300084307 AV - N6537.M3943 M38 2001 U1 - 917.7/02 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Mathur, Anuradha KW - Cunha, Dilip da KW - Landscape assessment KW - Mississippi River Valley KW - In art KW - Exhibitions N1 - Include index; Contents: Preface xi -- Introduction 1 -- Greenville Bends / Yazoo Delta Meanders 29 Blues Meanders -- Engineered Curves -- Depositing Depth -- Lateral Moves -- Raising Hollers -- Extending Horizons -- Draining Waters -- Flooding Soil -- Basin 13 Basin/Model / Mississippi Basin -- Old River Control / Atchafalaya Floodway Flows 69 -- Arresting Time -- Dividing Floods -- Spreading Waters -- Acadian Flows -- Leveling Discourse -- Moving Sediment -- Banks 97 Baton Rouge to New Orleans / River Corridor -- Cultivating Banks -- Crevassing Levees -- Channeling Crossings -- Floating Matters -- Ranging Sights -- Beds 125 The Passes / Birdfoot Delta -- Passing Depth -- Eroding Continent -- Piloting Exchange -- Gathering Basin -- Epilogue 151 -- Notes 154 -- Index 159 -- ER -