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Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.Description: xvii, 305 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226443221
Other title:
  • Heatwave ; Social autopsy of disaster in Chicago [Portion of title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.34/921 21
  • 363.34921 21
LOC classification:
  • HV1471.C38 K585 2002
Contents:
Prologue: The Urban Inferno -- Introduction: The City of Extremes -- Ch. 1. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Isolation -- Ch. 2. Race, Place, and Vulnerability: Urban Neighborhoods and the Ecology of Support -- Ch. 3. The State of Disaster: City Services in the Empowerment Era -- Ch. 4. Governing by Public Relations -- Ch. 5. The Spectacular City: News Organizations and the Representation of Catastrophe -- Conclusion: Emerging Dangers in the Urban Environment -- Epilogue: Together in the End.
Review: "In July 1995, Chicagoans suffered through a blistering heat wave that buckled streets and downed portions of the city's power grid. It also left over seven hundred people dead. In this book, [the author explains] how such fatalities occured."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

Prologue: The Urban Inferno -- Introduction: The City of Extremes -- Ch. 1. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Isolation -- Ch. 2. Race, Place, and Vulnerability: Urban Neighborhoods and the Ecology of Support -- Ch. 3. The State of Disaster: City Services in the Empowerment Era -- Ch. 4. Governing by Public Relations -- Ch. 5. The Spectacular City: News Organizations and the Representation of Catastrophe -- Conclusion: Emerging Dangers in the Urban Environment -- Epilogue: Together in the End.

"In July 1995, Chicagoans suffered through a blistering heat wave that buckled streets and downed portions of the city's power grid. It also left over seven hundred people dead. In this book, [the author explains] how such fatalities occured."

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