Fires How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned down New York City--And Determined the Future of Cities

Name: Fires How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned down New York City--And Determined the Future of Cities
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ISBN: 9781594485060

ISBN-10: 1594485062

ISBN-13: 9781594485060

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Authors: Joe Flood

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A revealing account of the first time computer modeling met City Hall-and the disaster that ensued. In 1968, New York City struck a deal with the RAND Corporation to use their computer models to establish more efficient public services and save millions of dollars, beginning their first civilian effort with the FDNY. Over the next decade a series of fires swept through New York, displacing more than 600,000 people, all thanks to the intentional withdrawal of fire protection from the city's poorest neighborhoods-based on RAND's computer modeling systems. In The Fires, journalist Joe Flood provides an X-ray of the inner workings of modern cities, using the dramatic story of a pair of mayors,…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



A Note on Sourcing and Phrasing



The War Years



The Fireman and the Reformer



The Hangman's Trap



Of Whiz Kids and Think Tanks



Enter the Poet



The Fire Next Door



How the Other Half Thinks



Red Lines and White Flight



Of Riots and Airmail



O'Hagan's Choice



Going Along to Get Along



Quantifying the Unquantifiable



A Disproportionate Share of the Economies



New Math



The Fiscal Crisis Kool-Aid Acid Test



Waldbaum's Revisited


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index