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

Title: Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age Author: Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 9781250758019 Publisher: Picador Published: 2020 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1559493 Publisher Description: 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 we