Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

Hochfelder, David

doi:10.1080/02665433.2020.1753363

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“…Historian Lizabeth Cohen (2019), in "Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age," narrates the work of the prominent urban renewal figure in three American cities (New Haven, Boston, and New York). 80 One aspect that Cohen highlights is the positive impact of citizen participation in urban renewal projects. As Cohen contends regarding Boston's urban renewal experience, "One of the most important legacies….…”

Section: The Resurgence Of the Street During Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Rise and Fall: Downtown Eugene’s Pedestrian Mall Experience and Retail Core Transformation

Shrestha

2023

Journal of Planning History

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Downtown Eugene’s retail core transformed drastically after the institution of the pedestrian mall in 1971. The “Eugene Mall,” which was demolished across four stages between 1985 and 2002, was a part of the city’s federal urban renewal program of the late-1960s. This research examines (1) the reasons for the mall’s failure, (2) the displacement of retail businesses and brief rise and decline during the first phase of the mall’s existence (1971–1985), and (3) the resurgence of the downtown core through a shift in approach, specifically one that allowed diverse non-retail projects during its second phase (1986–2002).

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Section: The Resurgence Of the Street During Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Rise and Fall: Downtown Eugene’s Pedestrian Mall Experience and Retail Core Transformation

Shrestha

2023

Journal of Planning History

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“…12 In a piece titled "Home Remedies for Urban Cancer," for example, noted planning critic Lewis Mumford opined that Jacobs' proposals were "amateurish" and provincial, going so far as to frame Jacobs as having an "overruling fear of living in the big city she so openly adores." 13 Likewise, Ed Logue, an urban renewal practitioner who had worked to redesign downtown New Haven, Connecticut from 1954 to 1960 and was now bound to do the same in Boston, 14 wrote dismissively of Jacobs: "It is in the image of the Village that she would recast our slum-stricken cities." 15 These public reactions to Jacobs' book and her broader normative approach to city planning stuck, and generated two historiographic narratives: Jacobs as motherly grassroots activist on the one hand, and sinister, anti-public NIMBY on the other.…”

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From “Citizen Jane” to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning’s Jane Jacobs Historiography

Norgaard

2022

Journal of Planning History

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Conventional wisdom frames scholar and activist Jane Jacobs as a skeptical housewife, heterodox/dissident critic, or common-sense neighborhood resident. Yet a comprehensive archival review of Jacobs’ professional engagement with philanthropy and urban-development organizations reveals instead an activist scholar-leader in a larger, well-funded movement that must be understood in its time and place. Institutional partnerships shaped and informed Jacobs’ most noted projects, and her counsel, in turn, shaped urban-development grantmaking. An historical assessment of Jacobs’ ideas, and of social change more broadly, should examine not just individuals, but also supporters, organizations, and paradigms.

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“…We assess the local government response to the destruction of 1968, and complement a long line of work that considers the role of government in urban development. From New Deal programs of the 1930s, to the "Urban Renewal" of the central areas of US cities in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government has long striven, with at best mixed success, to redevelop urban areas (Collins and Shester, 2013;Cohen, 2019). In recent years, these policies have been replaced by new levers for addressing vacancy and disinvestment: land banks (Whitaker and Fitzpatrick, 2016), tax increment financing (Greenbaum and Landers, 2014), and various tax incentive zones (Neumark and Kolko, 2010;Freedman et al, 2021).…”

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Destruction, Policy, and the Evolving Consequences of Washington, DC's 1968 Civil Disturbance

Brooks,

Rose,

Veuger

2024

Review of Economics and Statistics

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We study the aftermath of the 1968 Washington, DC civil disturbance to illuminate the mechanisms that drive urban redevelopment in the presence of low demand and racial tension. Using a within-block identification strategy, we show that destruction caused lots to remain vacant for the next thirty years and only recently converge in terms of structure value. The city acted to preclude for-profit land owners from leaving land vacant until demand conditions improved by purchasing nearly half of all properties in damaged neighborhoods. Despite this and other steps, the city had limited success in speeding up redevelopment.

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Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

Cited by 5 publications

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Rise and Fall: Downtown Eugene’s Pedestrian Mall Experience and Retail Core Transformation

Rise and Fall: Downtown Eugene’s Pedestrian Mall Experience and Retail Core Transformation

From “Citizen Jane” to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning’s Jane Jacobs Historiography

Destruction, Policy, and the Evolving Consequences of Washington, DC's 1968 Civil Disturbance

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