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001 2004012103
003 DLC
005 20090127111232.0
008 040520s2005 ilua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004012103
020 $a0226670767 (cloth : alk. paper)
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042 $apcc
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050 00 $aHT243.U62$bC486 2005
082 00 $a307.76/09773/11$222
100 1 $aPlatt, Harold L.
245 10 $aShock cities :$bthe environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago /$cHarold L. Platt.
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2005.
300 $axvi, 628 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 499-609) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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 cities.
650 0 $aUrban ecology (Sociology)$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndustries$xEnvironmental aspects$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
650 0 $aUrban ecology (Sociology)$zEngland$zManchester$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndustries$xEnvironmental aspects$zEngland$zManchester$xHistory.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/2004012103.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2004012103.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004012103-b.html