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Chargement... Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Agepar Lizabeth Cohen
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Some of what you know about urban renewal is wrong. Although its primary movers were white men (and later more white women), some of them were committed progressives and desegregators. Although they made mistakes in terms of separating housing from business and not involving communities enough, Ed Logue—a planner responsible for lots of things in New Haven, Boston, and New York—learned from those mistakes, insisted on hiring Black architects and workers (so much so that other NY planners complained that he’d used up the available supply making it difficult for them to meet their own inclusion requirements), and remained committed to affordable and integrated housing. The problem was that structures were bigger than individual planners and individual cities—so when Logue was gone, for example, banks’ discriminatory conduct made his projects instruments of segregation. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. InSaving 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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