| Description |
xviii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to Part One: Baptism by Fire -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Benign Neglect and Planned Shrinkage -- 3. A Plague on Houses: Contagious Fires -- Introduction to Part Two: Epidemics -- 4. Tuberculosis: The Captain of All the Men of Death -- 5. Substance Abuse -- 6. AIDS: Incurable and Fatal -- 7. Epidemics Galore -- Introduction to Part Three: Beyond New York City and Policy -- 8. Metropolitan Region and Nation -- 9. Policy to Heal the Wounds -- 10. The 1990s: Fighting the Symptoms |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index |
| Subject |
Social planning -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Public health -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Fire departments -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Social policy -- New York (State) -- New York.
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| Author |
Wallace, Rodrick.
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| LC no. |
98043932 |
| ISBN |
1859842534 paperback |
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1859848583 : |
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