A Plague on Your Houses
Subtitle: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
Publisher: Verso
Published: February 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781859848586
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Fire services; Political structure & processes; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Public Health; Social Situations And Conditions; Urban Sociology; Political Science; Sociology; USA; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Political History; New York; Fire departments; New York (State); Social planning
Description: "A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York City and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse." "Using an approach more commonly associated with epidemiology, Deborah and Rodrick Wallace paint a terrifying picture of rampant social collapse, spreading in the patterns of a pandemic plague."--BOOK JACKET.