Heat wave: a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago

Acknowledgments

Prologue : Urban inferno

Introduction : City of extremes

Dying alone : the social production of isolation

Race, place, and vulnerability : urban neighborhoods and the ecology of support

State of disaster : city services in the empowerment era

Governing by public relations

Spectacular city : news organizations and the representation of catastrophe

Emerging dangers in the urban environment

Together in the end.