{"product_id":"saving-americas-cities-9781250758019","title":"Saving Americas Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bancroft Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. In \u003ci\u003eSaving America's Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 entrenche\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195259646295,"sku":"9781250758019","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saving-americas-cities-9781250758019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}