Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface Free Audiobook Download by Eric Klinenberg

Chicago's history includes a long list of devastating natural disasters, from the Great Chicago Fire to the Blizzard of 2016. In Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg examines this tragic history through a lens of social science and policy. Klinenberg argues that societal responses to major disasters have been always been politically charged, often futile, and many times even counterproductive. Chicago's response to the heat wave was no different. The city experienced up to 1,200-degree Fahrenheit days in early July 2016. With over 70 deaths in just one week, the heat wave came as a shock to many who had never previously thought about tragedy on such a scale.

The book is an exploration of the facts and effects of the extreme heat that gripped Chicago in 1995. It was a disaster in many ways: health, social mobility, and economics. The book is also a historical exploration of the earliest days of "urban heat wave" studies and some of their core values by today's standards, such as how they focus on neighborhoods rather than cities, area thematization, and data-driven interpretations.

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book which was written by Eric Klinenberg. The book explores the events which led up to and occurred during the summer of 1995 in Chicago. The book focuses on how the heat wave had an effect on people's health and wellbeing. It also goes into detail about contemporary urban living and the problems that exist within society due to climate change.

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface is an ethnographic study of heat waves in Chicago during the summer of 1995. The book is written from the perspective of an outsider who has never lived in Chicago and not really been exposed to the effects of heat waves before. Throughout the book, the author argues that there were many mistakes made which led to disaster.

The book tells the story of the weeklong heat wave in Chicago that happened in July 1995. At the time, it was the hottest week Chicago had ever experienced. The temperature reached 95 degrees for ten consecutive days and there was a 10-14% increase in mortality rate. In addition to being an eye-opening account of what occurred during one of America's most devastating natural disasters, it is also a social autopsy that examines how the disaster could have been prevented.

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface is the second edition of Klinenberg's book on the events that led to the death of approximately 700 people during the heat wave in July 1995. It is further enhanced with a preface written by Eric Klinenberg himself which discusses changes to his understanding of what happened during that time and how he views it now.