| A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled Contributor(s): Wallace, Deborah (Author), Wallace, Rodrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1859842534 ISBN-13: 9781859842539 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2001 Annotation: A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York City in the 1970s 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Political Science |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 98043932 |
| Series: Haymarket |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6" W x 8.92" (0.82 lbs) 242 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York |
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| Publisher Description: A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse. |