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Heat Wave (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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Heat Wave (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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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.
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