Renewing Logue’s Reputation?: A Review of Liz Cohen’s Saving America’s Cities

April 16, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2019) Reviewed by Bob Carey Lizabeth Cohen has given us a big, tasty book about urban renewal and the career—successes and failures—of urban planner Ed Logue. Logue had, for many, the […]

The Bronx Burned: Sara Patenaude on the documentary Decade of Fire

March 31, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

By Sara Patenaude Decade of Fire. Directed by Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran. Red Nut Films, 2018. Decade of Fire tells the story of the South Bronx in the 1970s, when 80% of the housing stock in the neighborhood was ravaged by fires and 250,000 residents lost their homes. Such wide-spread devastation could easily […]

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Renewing Logue’s Reputation?: A Review of Liz Cohen’s Saving America’s Cities

The Bronx Burned: Sara Patenaude on the documentary Decade of Fire