In July 1995, Chicagoans suffered through a blistering week-long heat wave that buckled streets and downed portions of the city's power grid. It also left over 700 people dead. In this alarming book, Eric Klinenberg tells us how such fatalities could have happened in a modern American city. The picture he paints - of social breakdown, unresponsive government and poorly equipped public services - is one no reader interested in the current state of American urbanism can afford to ignore.
- ISBN10 0226443221
- ISBN13 9780226443225
- Publish Date 15 July 2003 (first published 12 July 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English