City on the Edge Buffalo, New York

Name: City on the Edge Buffalo, New York
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ISBN: 9781591024576

ISBN-10: 1591024579

ISBN-13: 9781591024576

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Goldman

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the city of Buffalo, New York, looked toward a future of great promise. During this era, the city was the host of a prestigious world's fair, The Pan American Exposition, and an industrial behemoth, the Lackawanna Steel Company, had just opened its doors. Buffalonians at this time had every reason to believe that these massive and impressive signs of progress augured well for the balance of the century. One hundred years later, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Buffalo is on the verge of bankruptcy, and a new generation of citizens looks back wistfully, wondering what happened and where, now, they are headed. In a sweeping narrative…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.65" wide x 8.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




The pan-American exposition and the Lackawanna Steel Company : high hopes in early twentieth-century buffalo



Patterns of daily life in the industrial city



Early twentieth-century buffalo through the lens of change



The 1920s and the rise of the modern city



An and life in the depression decade



The home front



Buffalo at mid-century



Downtown and the neighborhoods during the 1960s



Lightning strikes : art and life during the 1960s



The 1970s a decade of loss



Judge curtin strives to create a new kind of community



The 1980s : where are we going?



Strange bedfellows : why bad things happen to good cities



What's going on? : buffalo at the turn of the twenty-first century



Now is the time restoring a sense of place