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The Fires - How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities (Paperback)
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The Fires - How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities (Paperback)
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You Save R73 (11%)
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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 all modern
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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