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

by Lizabeth Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374254087
• ISBN13: 9780374254087
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"