Plague on Your Houses

Deborah Wallace is the author of In the Mouth of the Dragon: Toxic Fires in the Age of Plastics and, with Rodrick Wallace, Studies on the Collapse of the Fire Service in New York City. She works as an ecologist for Consumers' union.Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Department of Mental Health Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric institute.

A Plague on Your Houses breaks new ground for a political ecology of urban decay. It is also a provocative foretale of what 'radical urban science' might be.