Saving America's cities: Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age

Introduction: Cities in crisis --

Part I: New Haven in the 1950s: creating a laboratory for urban renewal --

The making of an urban renewer --

Urban renewal as a liberal project --

Trouble right here in model city --

Part II: Boston in the 1960s: rebuilding the city on the hill --

Sizing up the old Boston --

Battling for a new Boston --

Negotiating neighborhoods --

Part III: New York in the 1970s and 1980s: winning and losing an empire in the Empire State --

Constructing a 'great society' in New York --

From fair share to belly up --

Ashes to gardens in the South Bronx.