Harold L Platt

Harold L. Platt is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1920 and The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 . He is also the editor of Cities and Catastrophe: Coping with Emergency in European History .

Harold L. Platt is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1920 and The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 . He is also the editor of Cities and Catastrophe: Coping with Emergency in European History . See less