The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities [Hardcover]
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003SPTNW0 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 378 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Insightful and brilliantly written Joe Flood hsa an incredible voice - combining an earthy vernacular, polymathic references to literature and history, and a real ear for great and evocative quotations. Every chapter ended with a great cliffhanger that made the book really move and kept me as the reader charging forward. This is non-fiction at its best - richly written, dramatic, and with characters that rival any novel.I was fascinated (and shocked) to read the story of how the city-planning elite systematically destroyed whole neighborhoods in New York pursuit of their own vision of how a city should look. Yet this. NEW YORK CITY BURNING Being in the field of fire investigation, and having worked with various NYC Fire Marshals over the years, including during certain of the times in the Book, I was rather shocked to finally see in print what many suspected was occuring "back then". There was an increase in the area of "fire investigation", which typically may indicate more "arsons" being detected, but the continuing $$ cutbacks and the seeming lack of concern over the FD closings and relocations, just added to the overall problem. Sure, there were increases in "arson", but the "normal" expected fires in a city this . Manzikert said How institutional racism and the arrogance of NY's liberal élite burned down the Bronx. If you've ever seen pictures of the horrendous urban decay and devastation of the Bronx in the '70s, or seen films like Fort Apache the Bronx or Wolfen and wondered how once thriving multi-ethnic inner city communities could end up looking like a post-apocalyptic wasteland, this book tells that astonishing and little understood story, which inspired the immortal and apocryphal phrase the 'Bronx is Burning'.The book explains how elitist arrogance and what we would now term institutional racism, drove forward many of the most disastrous urban planning projects that created an urban ni
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