• French Quarter

  The oldest neighborhood, more residential than its reputation suggests if you know where to walk.

• Bywater & Marigny

  The downriver neighborhoods where the city's music, food, and design scenes have settled.

• Garden District

  The 19th-century American sector where the cotton money built the houses, and the houses are still there.

• Uptown

  Everything upriver of the Garden District — the residential city where the streetcar runs and the trees do most of the work.