Saving America's cities : Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age /

Cohen, Lizabeth,

Saving America's cities : Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age / Lizabeth Cohen. - First edition. - 547 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New Haven in the 1950s: creating a laboratory for urban renewal -- The making of an urban renewer -- Urban renewal as a liberal project -- Trouble right here in model city -- Boston in the 1960s: rebuilding the city on the hill -- Sizing up the old Boston -- Battling for a new Boston -- Negotiating neighborhoods -- New York in the 1970s and 1980s: winning and losing an empire in the empire state -- Constructing a 'great society' in New York -- From fair share to belly up -- Ashes to gardens in the South Bronx.

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Logue, Edward J.


Urban renewal--Connecticut--New Haven.
Urban renewal--Massachusetts--Boston.
Urban renewal--New York (State)--New York.

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