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One The War Years 1
Two The Fireman and the Reformer 27
Three The Hangman's Trap 55
Four Of Whiz Kids and Think Tanks 73
Five Enter the Poet 95
Six The Fire Next Door 107
Seven How the Other Half Thinks 123
Eight Red Lines and White Flight 149
Nine Of Riots and Airmail 163
Ten O'Hagan's Choice 173
Eleven Going Along to Get Along 187
Twelve Quantifying the Unquantifiable 197
Thirteen A Disproportionate Share of the Economies 215
Fourteen New Math 227
Fifteen The Fiscal Crisis Kool-Aid Acid Test 243
Sixteen Waldbaum's Revisited 255
Conclusion 263
Acknowledgments 279
Notes 281
Bibliography 311
Index 317
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Danielle Fesenmyer
reviewed The Fires: How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of American Cities on June 08, 2010
The Fires
This is a really fascinating book for people interested in the Bronx (and Brooklyn and parts of lower Manhattan) during the 70s. I never quite understood why my parents were so terrified when I announced to them I'd be teaching in the South Bronx, but after reading this book, I realized what their memories were of the South Bronx during this time period. (My dad, who is prone to exaggeration, compared it to Apocalypse Now... a war zone... hell... etc... but I see now he wasn't joking.)
It's frustrating to read about the actions of city leaders who truly believed they were doing the right thing by purposely starving the city's poorest enclaves of resources (in this book, fire services) based on simplistic computer models, but it's also a lesson for future generations. Though the appeal of this book is probably pretty narrow, and parts for me were a bit dry, I thought the author gave a good overview of the circumstances surrounding the fires. I would have liked more perspective from people who lived through the events.
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