{"product_id":"saving-americas-cities-ed-logue-and-the-struggle-to-renew-urban-america-in-the-suburban-age-paperback","title":"Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLizabeth Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bancroft Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 \u003ci\u003eSaving America's Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLogue's era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. \u003ci\u003eSaving America's Cities\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLizabeth Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMaking a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Bancroft Prize, and \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756069151053,"sku":"9781250758019","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/b0EWsmL01P9781250758019.webp?v=1776722022","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/saving-americas-cities-ed-logue-and-the-struggle-to-renew-urban-america-in-the-suburban-age-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}