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...Boston" is Ed Logue's success story. But the "master plan" has its share of critics. Skeptics have assailed Logue for caring more about the cosmetics of Boston's physical design than about the needs of the city's poor. They assert that hundreds of Logue's development projects displaced hundreds of low-income families and disrupted the patterns of life in indigent communities...
...base which in turn provides jobs for its citizens. As Robert Healy has pointed out in The Boston Globe: "The central city can never be separated from the neighborhoods. When the core of a city goes, as in Cleveland or Detroit, the neighborhoods are left to suffer the pain." Ed Logue saved Boston's core...
...BOSTON remembers Ed Logue on its 350th birthday, the master planner has gone to work on a tougher problem--redeveloping America's worst slum, the South Bronx. The South Bronx is the same size as the city of Boston. And here the similarities end. There are no Beacon Hills, Back Bays, picturesque waterfronts or vital downtown office areas in the South Bronx. One-third of its population is on public assistance. It represents a magnification of the worst of Boston's problems, without any of its strengths...
...decades after developing a plan to stabilize Boston's corporate economy, Ed Logue has come up with a strategy to solidify the industrial economic base of the South Bronx. He plans to bring jobs to the Bronx by assembling scattered parcels of vacant land for industrial developments. At the same time, the South Bronx Development Office is working to tap scarce government funds to better to South Bronx housing stock, improve human service delivery in the area, and direct government-subsidized job programs toward the goal of redeveloping the community...
Last week, Ed Logue came back to Boston to participate in its the Cities of the World Conference. After moderating a panel in the Science Center, he reminisced about the days when he wielded power and could attract the funds needed to revitalize Boston. As director of the BRA, he commanded an autonomous and extraordinarily powerful bureaucratic office. He could make decisions which often translated directly into action. And the federal government reacted favorably to most of his plans. The feds, for example, provided all of the monies necessary to develop Government Center...