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In 1718, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville created a settlement on a sliver of marshland between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. It proved to have both economic and strategic value. Being on a natural floodplain and prone to heavy rainfall, only the higher ground was used at first. Much of the area between the river and lake was a geographic bowl. No sane person would consider building a city there.
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Goalstone, D. (2007). Natural Disaster—2. In: Macrofoundations of Political Economy and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604315_31
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