Shock Cities

List of Illustrations
Preface
Part One - Creating Industrial Ecologies
1. Introduction: The Industrial City and the Paradox of Progress
LAND
2. "They Are All Little Manchesters"
3. Mudhole in the Prairie
WATER
4. "A Fountain Inexhaustible": Chicago and Environmental Profligacy
5. "The Hardest Worked River": Manchester and Environmental Catastrophe
AIR
6. The Technological Construction of Industrial Ecologies
7. The Social Construction of Industrial Technology
Part Two - Reforming Industrial Cities
8. Introduction: Public Health and the Politics of Environmental Reform
LAND
9. The Environmental Justice Movement in Manchester
10. The Environmental Justice Movement in Chicago
WATER
11. "Monstrous Waste": Water Supply in Chicago and Manchester
12. "Clever Microbes": Sanitation Science in Manchester and Chicago
AIR
13. "Invisible Evil": Pollution and Class Politics in Manchester
14. Visible Smoke: Pollution and Gender Politics in Chicago
15. Conclusion: Machine Age Cities
Notes
Index