Heat Wave
A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
320 pages, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables 6 x 9
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2002
Cloth $27.50
ISBN: 9780226443218
Published July 2002
Paper $15.00
ISBN: 9780226443225
Published July 2003
Related links: Read an interview with the author.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Urban Inferno
Introduction: The City of Extremes
1. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Isolation
2. Race, Place, and Vulnerability: Urban Neighborhoods and the Ecology of Support
3. The State of Disaster: City Services in the Empowerment Era
4. Governing by Public Relations
5. The Spectacular City: News Organizations and the Representation of Catastrophe
Conclusion: Emerging Dangers in the Urban Environment
Epilogue: Together in the End
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Awards
- PROSE Book Award
- Mirra Komarovsky Book Award
- Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award
- C. Wright Mills Award
Honorable Mention
- British Sociological Assoc. Book Prize
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