PLATT, Harold L.

Professor Emeritus

Education

Ph.D., Rice

Research Interests

Urban History
Environmental History
History of Technology
Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Publications/Research Listings

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 - Amazon

Shock Cities : The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago - Amazon

City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 - Amazon

Cities and Catastrophes/Villes Et Catastrophes: Coping With Emergency in European History - Amazon

Visions of the Organic City: Urban Planning since 1945 (ms. under review, 2012)

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Cities and Catastrophes: Coping with Emergency in European History, eds. G. Massard-Guilbuad, H. Platt, and D. Schott (Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002)

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)

City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1920 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983)