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

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

Joe Flood

325 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative fast-paced
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Despite the disastrous consequences, New York City in the 1970s set the template for how a modern city functions-both literally, as RAND sold its computer models to cities across the country, and systematically, as a new wave of technocratic deci...

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