A Plague on Your Houses keyword feminism Margaret Crawford focuses on the Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing planetary life 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