Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Cohen, Lizabeth
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Cohen, Lizabeth

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but...
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Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Cohen, Lizabeth

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

$92.50
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Cohen, Lizabeth

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

$92.50
Author: Lizabeth Cohen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize

In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good.

It wasn't always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America's Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the "New Boston" of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State's Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Logue's era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America's Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

Author: Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780374254087


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2019 pg. 87
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/09/2019
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 5
Choice 06/01/2020

About the Author
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University and the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Bancroft Prize, and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.
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