Incipit - Modern uses of incipits. 1  The idea of choosing a few words or a phrase or two, which would be placed on the spine of a book and its cover, developed slowly with the birth of printing, and the idea of a title page with a short title and subtitle came centuries later, replacing earlier, more verbose titles.
The New Orleans metropolitan area was first defined in 1950. Then known as the New Orleans Standard Metropolitan Area (New Orleans SMA), it consisted of three parishes â Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard â and had a population of 685,405.
In fact, both New Orleans proper and the metropolitan region straddle sea level. Since Katrina, a great deal of attention has been rightfully paid to the future of lower-lying. neighborhoods, which flooded heavily. Meanwhile, higher areas have been largely under studied. The purpose of this investigation is to bring attention to above-sea-level New Orleans, measure and. map it, and estimate how many people could theoretically reside there, based on historical and recent census. data.