A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago
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 cities
Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago
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 cities
Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago
Platt, Harold L. (author)
2005
XVI, 628 S
24 cm
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
Includes bibliographical references and index
Report
English
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