Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.
2002
HV1471.C38 K585 2002 (Mapit)
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Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.
Author
Klinenberg, Eric.
ISBN
9780226443218 (alk. paper)
0226443213 (alk. paper)
0226443213 (alk. paper)
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 305 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm.
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HV1471.C38 K585 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/921
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.
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Acknowledgments
Prologue : Urban inferno
Introduction : City of extremes
Dying alone : the social production of isolation
Race, place, and vulnerability : urban neighborhoods and the ecology of support
State of disaster : city services in the empowerment era
Governing by public relations
Spectacular city : news organizations and the representation of catastrophe
Emerging dangers in the urban environment
Together in the end.
Prologue : Urban inferno
Introduction : City of extremes
Dying alone : the social production of isolation
Race, place, and vulnerability : urban neighborhoods and the ecology of support
State of disaster : city services in the empowerment era
Governing by public relations
Spectacular city : news organizations and the representation of catastrophe
Emerging dangers in the urban environment
Together in the end.