Shock Cities The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago

Name: Shock Cities The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago
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ISBN: 9780226670768

ISBN-10: 0226670767

ISBN-13: 9780226670768

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harold L. Platt

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"Shock Cities is environmental history of the highest order. This searching work is the first trans-Atlantic study to examine the industrial city in holistic terms, looking at the transformation of its land, water, and air. Harold L. Platt demonstrates how the creation of industrial ecologies spurred the reorganization of urban areas into separate spheres, unhealthy slums in the center and garden estates in the suburbs. By comparing Chicago and Manchester, Platt also shows how the ruling classes managed the political creation of urban space to ensure financial gain--often to the environmental detriment of both regions. "Shock Cities also recasts the age of industry within a larger frame of…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/22/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.13" long x 1.73" tall
Weight: 2.134



List of Illustrations


Preface



Creating Industrial Ecologies



Introduction: The Industrial City and the Paradox of Progress


Land



"They Are All Little Manchesters"



Mudhole in the Prairie


Water



"A Fountain Inexhaustible": Chicago and Environmental Profligacy



"The Hardest Worked River": Manchester and Environmental Catastrophe


Air



The Technological Construction of Industrial Ecologies



The Social Construction of Industrial Technology



Reforming Industrial Cities



Introduction: Public Health and the Politics of Environmental Reform


Land



The Environmental Justice Movement in Manchester



The Environmental Justice Movement in Chicago


Water



"Monstrous Waste": Water Supply in Chicago and Manchester



"Clever Microbes": Sanitation Science in Manchester and Chicago


Air



"Invisible Evil": Pollution and Class Politics in Manchester



Visible Smoke: Pollution and Gender Politics in Chicago



Conclusion: Machine Age Cites


Notes


Index