Download or read book A Plague on Your Houses written by Deborah Wallace and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001-11-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.