Author Lizabeth Cohen frames Ed Logue as a Greek tragic hero, and it’s easy to see why. Logue’s leadership in major postwar planning and urban-development schemes in New Haven, Boston, and New York fit this narrative nicely: a precipitous rise in power, prodigious accomplishments, noble intentions along with hubris and missteps, and finally a virtual exile.
Logue was born in Philadelphia, attended Yale for college and law school and had stints as a union organizer and political attaché before his first post as head of the New Haven Redevelopment Agency (NHRA) in 1953. Cohen recounts his changes in thinking and practice as he vaulted from head of the NHRA to that of admin- istrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1960, and finally, in 1967, the president and CEO of New York’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (UDC).
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