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Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago
- Title
- Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago / Harold L. Platt.
- Author
- Platt, Harold L.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xvi, 628 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-609) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the industrial city and the paradox of progress -- Land -- "They are all little Manchesters" -- Mudhole in the prairie -- Water -- "A fountain inexhaustible" : Chicago and environmental profligacy -- "The hardest worked river" : Manchester and environmental catastrophe -- Air -- The technological construction of industrial ecologies -- The social construction of industrial technology -- Reforming industrial cities -- Introduction : public health and the politics of environmental reform -- Land -- The environmental justice movement in Manchester -- The environmental justice movement in Chicago -- Water -- "Monstrous waste" : water supply in Chicago and Manchester -- "Clever microbes" : sanitation science in Manchester and Chicago -- Air -- "Invisible evil" : pollution and class politics in Manchester -- Visible smoke : pollution and gender politics in Chicago -- Conclusion : machine age cities.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-5978
- ISBN
- 0226670767 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004012103
- OCLC
- 55502937
- Author
- Platt, Harold L.
- Title
- Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago / Harold L. Platt.
- Imprint
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-609) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-5978