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A Plague on Your Houses Deborah Wallace

A Plague on Your Houses By Deborah Wallace

A Plague on Your Houses by Deborah Wallace

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An 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.

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A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled by Deborah Wallace

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.

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A Plague on Your Houses breaks new ground for a political ecology of urban decay. It is also a provocative foretale of what 'radical urban science' might be. -- Mike Davis
This is a book which transcends the boundaries between politics, theory, empirical research and political activism. When was the last time you read something that really describes how the connections between policy, community and individual characteristics actually work? Wallace and Wallace have woven 20 years' worth of research, passion and action from the front line into an astonishing narrative. * Critical Public Health. *
A Plague on Your Houses deserves attention for its insights into the connections among urban communities and the ease with which diseases and social problems of the poor and vulnerable can spread into the mainstream and the suburbs. It asks new questions about the determinants of urban decay and public health, and challenges the dominant paradigm of disease causation mostly related to individual choices and lifestyles. * JAMA *

About Deborah Wallace

Deborah Wallace is the author of In the Mouth of the Dragon: Toxic Fires in the Age of Plastics and, with Rodrick Wallace, Studies on the Collapse of the Fire Service in New York City. She works as an ecologist for Consumers' union.

Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Department of Mental Health Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric institute.

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CIN1859842534G
9781859842539
1859842534
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled by Deborah Wallace
Deborah Wallace
Used - Good
Paperback
Verso Books
20011117
242
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