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Article: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. .(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Urban Research
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Klinenberg, Eric.
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
305 pp.
ISBN 0-226-44321-3
$30.65
In the city I live in, Toronto, it seems likely this winter that several homeless people, caught out in the extreme cold, will die in public spaces, curled up in bus shelters or on pavement grates. And despite efforts of anti-poverty activists to frame such death as a national disaster of homelessness, the widespread sentiment will be that simply "the weather" killed these vulnerable people. In Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg explores ...