Our fall 2024 issue of the Water Map focuses on the topic of levees. Interested in learning more? Here are some of the readings and resources that informed our work. 

From Algiers Point to Bucktown to Lincoln Beach, explore some of the many locations where people in New Orleans and Bulbancha live on or around levees through the camera lens of Christine "Cfreedom" Brown.

Two maps depict the path of the Mississippi River and the land around it. What do these maps show us about how we have understood the river and our relationship to it?

Rivers are usually in the lowest part of a landscape, but that's not the case here in the delta.