The Fires: How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities - Hardcover
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Contends how computer remodeling of 1970s-era New York City led to the withdrawal of fire protection services from poor neighborhoods that subsequently burned down and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, citing the contributions of the RAND Corporation and various political figures.
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Joe Flood received the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) award from the Bronx Council on the Arts for his work researching and writing about the epidemic of fires in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Joe Flood is a journalist who has spent the last seven years?since before he graduated from Harvard?researching the facts and implications of the epidemic of fires that swept through New York City in the 1970s. He has worked for DoubleTake Magazine, and The New York Sun, and is the co-editor of the "definitive" anthology Resistance: A Political History of the Lower East Side.
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