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catalog abstract ""On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished - more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 - in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history." "Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b12395358.
catalog coverage "Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.".
catalog coverage "Chicago epidemiology".
catalog created "c2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "c2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
catalog description ""Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been."--Jacket.".
catalog description ""On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog description "And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished - more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 - in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history."".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.".
catalog extent "xvii, 305 p. :".
catalog identifier "0226443213 (cloth : alk. paper)".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "c2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
catalog spatial "Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.".
catalog spatial "Chicago epidemiology".
catalog spatial "Chicago.".
catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago".
catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago.".
catalog subject "2008 H-678".
catalog subject "363.34/921 21".
catalog subject "Aged Chicago.".
catalog subject "Aged".
catalog subject "Disasters Chicago.".
catalog subject "Disasters Social aspects Illinois Chicago.".
catalog subject "Disasters".
catalog subject "HV1471.C38 K585 2002".
catalog subject "Heat Stress Disorders mortality Chicago.".
catalog subject "Heat waves (Meteorology) Illinois Chicago.".
catalog subject "Hot Temperature adverse effects Chicago.".
catalog subject "Hot Temperature".
catalog subject "Older disaster victims.".
catalog subject "Older people Illinois Chicago Social conditions.".
catalog subject "Older people Services for Illinois Chicago.".
catalog subject "Older people Services for.".
catalog subject "Older people Social conditions.".
catalog subject "Research".
catalog subject "Social Conditions".
catalog subject "Socioeconomic Factors Chicago.".
catalog subject "Urban Health Services".
catalog subject "Urban Population Chicago.".
catalog subject "WA 295 K65h 2002".
catalog tableOfContents "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.".
catalog title "Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.".
catalog type "text".