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Item Details
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HEAT WAVE
A SOCIAL AUTOPSY OF DISASTER IN CHICAGO |
| By: |
Eric Klinenberg |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226443221 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226443225 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 August, 2003 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
In July 1965 Chicago suffered a blistering week long heatwave that buckled streets and left over 700 people dead. Klinenberg discusses how such fatalities could have happened in a modern American city. |
| Synopsis: |
In July 1995, Chicagoans suffered through a blistering week-long heat wave that buckled streets and downed portions of the city's power grid. It also left over 700 people dead. In this alarming book, Eric Klinenberg tells us how such fatalities could have happened in a modern American city. The picture he paints - of social breakdown, unresponsive government and poorly equipped public services - is one no reader interested in the current state of American urbanism can afford to ignore. |
| Illustrations: |
35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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