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

By: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002Description: xvii, 305 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226443213 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV1471.C38 K585 2002
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab HV1471 .C38 K585 2002 1 Available 50583010300634
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

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