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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374254087
ISBN-13
9780374254087
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038743593
Product Key Features
Book Title
Saving America's Cities : Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Political, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
29.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-014944
Reviews
"Is it possible to write not only a good book about urban renewal but also a beautiful one? If you are Lizabeth Cohen, it is. Saving America's Cities is, at once, a new, wise and more balanced take on past efforts to save America's cities and a fascinating portrait of Ed Logue, a central figure in urban policy whose personal trajectory parallels the course of our debates over what works, and what doesn't. If you care about cities, you should read this book. But you should also read it if you simply love a great story full of compelling characters engaged in high-stakes struggles. It's a wonderful achievement." --E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart , Why the Right Went Wrong and co-author of One Nation After Trump "Lizabeth Cohen has written a terrific biography of the American city planner Ed Logue--a man of huge talent and equally staggering ego. Her account of Logue's rise and fall is both personally gripping and illuminates how American cities in the last century have tried, and failed, to balance the claims of cash, class, and race. Her scholarship is impeccable; her writing is a sheer pleasure." --Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, and author of Building and Dwelling "In this myth-shattering book, Liz Cohen offers an important reassessment of urban renewal in postwar America. Clear-eyed and convincing, Saving America's Cities not only accounts for the failures of federal policies in this period but also salvages the often-overlooked success stories as well. In the end, Cohen makes great use of the past to suggest new paths for the future." --Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University, "Is it possible to write not only a good book about urban renewal but also a beautiful one? If you are Lizabeth Cohen, it is. Saving America's Cities is, at once, a new, wise and more balanced take on past efforts to save America's cities and a fascinating portrait of Ed Logue, a central figure in urban policy whose personal trajectory parallels the course of our debates over what works, and what doesn't. If you care about cities, you should read this book. But you should also read it if you simply love a great story full of compelling characters engaged in high-stakes struggles. It's a wonderful achievement." --E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart , Why the Right Went Wrong and co-author of One Nation After Trump "This captivating biography of Ed Logue explains how a largely-forgotten liberal power broker made a profound but little-known impact on the urban landscape we still inhabit. One of our most distinguished historians, Lizabeth Cohen illuminates the struggle to make cities both viable and democratic that shaped postwar America. At a time when ordinary people can barely afford to live in America's biggest cities, Cohen's book is a necessary book to read." --Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University, and author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918 "Lizabeth Cohen has written a terrific biography of the American city planner Ed Logue--a man of huge talent and equally staggering ego. Her account of Logue's rise and fall is both personally gripping and illuminates how American cities in the last century have tried, and failed, to balance the claims of cash, class, and race. Her scholarship is impeccable; her writing is a sheer pleasure." --Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, and author of Building and Dwelling "In this myth-shattering book, Liz Cohen offers an important reassessment of urban renewal in postwar America. Clear-eyed and convincing, Saving America's Cities not only accounts for the failures of federal policies in this period but also salvages the often-overlooked success stories as well. In the end, Cohen makes great use of the past to suggest new paths for the future." --Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University "The history of urban renewal in American cities is typically portrayed as a tale of heroes vs. villains, personified in the epic struggle between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in 1950s and 1960s New York City. Lizabeth Cohen's detailed historical research provides a powerful new lens to view this disturbing yet formative time in the history of America's great cities. Her lens is the evolution of Ed Logue, the so-called "Master Rebuilder," in dealing with the urban crisis of New Haven, Boston, and New York. She dismantles the oversimplified tale of good and evil, understanding Logue's evolution in the context of the massive economic, demographic, and social forces acting on our cities, their residents, and their city-builders. She ends up providing a new more usable history of the role of great city-builders like Logue and of government involvement in the complex evolution of our cities. Mayors, urban developers, and city builders, as well as urban historians, all have much to learn from her compelling new narrative." --Richard Florida, University Professor, University of Toronto, and author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis., "Is it possible to write not only a good book about urban renewal but also a beautiful one? If you are Lizabeth Cohen, it is. Saving America's Cities is, at once, a new, wise and more balanced take on past efforts to save America's cities and a fascinating portrait of Ed Logue, a central figure in urban policy whose personal trajectory parallels the course of our debates over what works, and what doesn't. If you care about cities, you should read this book. But you should also read it if you simply love a great story full of compelling characters engaged in high-stakes struggles. It's a wonderful achievement." --E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart , Why the Right Went Wrong and co-author of One Nation After Trump "Lizabeth Cohen has written a terrific biography of the American city planner Ed Logue--a man of huge talent and equally staggering ego. Her account of Logue's rise and fall is both personally gripping and illuminates how American cities in the last century have tried, and failed, to balance the claims of cash, class, and race. Her scholarship is impeccable; her writing is a sheer pleasure." --Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, and author of Building and Dwelling "In this myth-shattering book, Liz Cohen offers an important reassessment of urban renewal in postwar America. Clear-eyed and convincing, Saving America's Cities not only accounts for the failures of federal policies in this period but also salvages the often-overlooked success stories as well. In the end, Cohen makes great use of the past to suggest new paths for the future." --Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University "The history of urban renewal in American cities is typically portrayed as a tale of heroes vs. villains, personified in the epic struggle between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in 1950s and 1960s New York City. Lizabeth Cohen's detailed historical research provides a powerful new lens to view this disturbing yet formative time in the history of America's great cities. Her lens is the evolution of Ed Logue, the so-called "Master Rebuilder," in dealing with the urban crisis of New Haven, Boston, and New York. She dismantles the oversimplified tale of good and evil, understanding Logue's evolution in the context of the massive economic, demographic, and social forces acting on our cities, their residents, and their city-builders. She ends up providing a new more usable history of the role of great city-builders like Logue and of government involvement in the complex evolution of our cities. Mayors, urban developers, and city builders, as well as urban historians, all have much to learn from her compelling new narrative." --Richard Florida, University Professor, University of Toronto, and author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis., "Lizabeth Cohen has written a terrific biography of the American city planner Ed Logue--a man of huge talent and equally staggering ego. Her account of Logue's rise and fall is both personally gripping and illuminates how American cities in the last century have tried, and failed, to balance the claims of cash, class, and race. Her scholarship is impeccable; her writing is a sheer pleasure." --Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, and author of Building and Dwelling "In this myth-shattering book, Liz Cohen offers an important reassessment of urban renewal in postwar America. Clear-eyed and convincing, Saving America's Cities not only accounts for the failures of federal policies in this period but also salvages the often-overlooked success stories as well. In the end, Cohen makes great use of the past to suggest new paths for the future." --Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University
Dewey Decimal
307.1
Synopsis
The story of the postwar American city as refracted through the life and career of the urban planner Edward J. Logue 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
HT175.C58 2019
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