City on the Edge
Subtitle: Buffalo, New York, 1900 - present
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: March 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781591024576
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Urban Renewal; History; History - U.S; History: American; New York; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Economic Policy; Economic Conditions; Public Policy - Regional Planning
Table of contents: title: The pan-American exposition and the Lackawanna Steel Company : high hopes in early twentieth-centuryBbuffalo -- 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 -- Art 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.