Shock cities : the environmental transformation and reform of Manchester and Chicago Introduction : the industrial city and the paradox of progress Land They are all little Manchesters Mudhole in the prairie Water A fountain inexhaustible : Chicago and environmental profligacy The hardest worked river : Manchester and environmental catastrophe Air The technological construction of industrial ecologies The social construction of industrial technology Reforming industrial cities Introduction : public health and the politics of environmental reform Land The environmental justice movement in Manchester The environmental justice movement in Chicago Water Monstrous waste : water supply in Chicago and Manchester Clever microbes : sanitation science in Manchester and Chicago Air Invisible evil : pollution and class politics in Manchester Visible smoke : pollution and gender politics in Chicago Conclusion : machine age cities