Too hot to handle.(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, October, 2002 by McNeill, Jim
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago By Eric Klinenberg. The University of Chicago Press, 305 pages, $27.50
Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago By David Naguib Pellow. The MIT Press, 234 pages, $24.95
BY MANY MEASURES, CHICAGO, the "City That Works," has been working just fine in recent years. The Loop is bustling, the housing market is booming and--after decades of decline--Chicago's population is growing once again. Perhaps more than any other U.S. city, Chicago was transformed by the urban renaissance of the 1990s, that ...
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