Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg

Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead. Rather than view these deaths as the inevitable consequence of natural disaster, sociologist Eric Klinenberg decided to figure out why so many people - and, specifically, so many elderly, poor, and isolated people - died, and to identify the social and political failures that together made the heat wave so deadly. Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the heat wave, this new edition of Klinenberg's groundbreaking book includes a new foreword by the author that reveals what we've learned in the years since its initial publication in 2002, and how in coming decades the effects of climate change will intensify the social and environmental pressures in urban areas around the world.

"Klinenberg draws the lines of culpability in dozens of directions, drawing a dense and subtle portrait of exactly what happened" (Malcolm Gladwell) "Revelatory." (Chicago) "Should be required reading for all public officials." (Choice)

Eric Klinenberg is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. His books include Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone and Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, and he has contributed to the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, and This American Life.

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ISBN 13	9780226276182
ISBN 10	022627618X
Title	Heat Wave
Author	Eric Klinenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2015-05-06
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.