Sociologist Eric Klinenberg applauds Chicago’s heat disaster plan, but worries about an event worsened by global warming.
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City on the Hot Seat
Despite what we were told at the time, the heat wave of 1995 didn’t kill indiscriminately. In his new book Heat Wave, Northwestern socialogist Eric Klinenberg argues that it was much harder on people isolated by poverty and crime. Klinenberg’s liberal val