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Saving America's Cities
Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
Lizabeth Cohen
2019
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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![Collage of four images related to urban development. Clockwise from left: photo of Ralph Nader, 1975. [Library of Congress] Aerial view of the Appalachia Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority [Tennessee Valley Authority, public domain] Edward Logue, at a hearing of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1965. [Digital Commonwealth, License CC 4.0] Hunters Point, San Francisco, ca. 1969. [San Francisco Public Library, public domain]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bunkhistory.org/derivatives/rectangle_small/images/2022-04-21/$2y$10$KVC1ieHgE2iKRDxJFL0FIuP15D.dDewxeIfJy3Cqgy4e.kd.sXLxy/Nelson-Public-Interests-lead-B.gif)
