The Fires: How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City--And Determined the Future of American Cities

Joe Flood

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Editore: Riverhead Books, 2010

1594488983 / 9781594488986

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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 -- and all based on RAND's computer modeling systems. In The Fires, journalist Joe Flood provides an X-ray of the inner workings of New York City in the 1970s and of allmodern cities, using the dramatic story of a pair of mayors, an ambitious Fire Commissioner, and an even more ambitious think tank to illuminate the patterns and formulas that are now inextricably woven into the very fabric of the modern urban experience.

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Titolo
The Fires: How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City--And Determined the Future of American Cities
Autore
Joe Flood
Editore
Riverhead Books
Anno di pubblicazione
2010
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1594488983
ISBN 13
9781594488986

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