Bibliograph

Saving America's cities, Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age, Lizabeth Cohen

Type

Label

Saving America's cities, Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age, Lizabeth Cohen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Saving America's cities

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1082562263

Responsibility statement

Lizabeth Cohen

Sub title

Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age

Summary

The story of the postwar American city as refracted through the life and career of the urban planner Edward J. Logue. --, Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

Classification