Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago

by H.L. Platt and Harold L. Platt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226670767
• ISBN13: 9780226670768
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"