A Plague on Your Houses
How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
Wallace, Deborah; Wallace, Rodrick
Date Written: 2001-11-17
Publisher: Verso
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 242pp ISBN: 978-1859842539
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX15620
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.