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Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago / Harold L. Platt.
Van Pelt Library HT243.U62 C486 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platt, Harold L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Industries--Environmental aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Industries.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--England--Manchester--History.
- Industries--Environmental aspects--England--Manchester--History.
- Industries--Environmental aspects.
- History.
- England--Manchester.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 628 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- 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
- The environmental justice movement in Manchester
- The environmental justice movement in Chicago
- "Monstrous waste" : water supply in Chicago and Manchester
- "Clever microbes" : sanitation science in Manchester and Chicago
- "Invisible evil" : pollution and class politics in Manchester
- Visible smoke : pollution and gender politics in Chicago
- Conclusion : machine age cities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-609) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226670767
- OCLC:
- 55502937
- Online:
- Publisher description
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