In a sweeping narrative that speaks to the serious student of urban studies as well as the general reader, Mark Goldman tells the story of twentieth-century Buffalo, New York.
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The pan-American exposition and the Lackawanna Steel Company : high hopes in early twentieth-century buffalo
p. 13
Patterns of daily life in the industrial city
p. 37
Early twentieth-century buffalo through the lens of change
p. 55
The 1920s and the rise of the modern city
p. 75
An and life in the depression decade
p. 99
The home front
p. 133
Buffalo at mid-century
p. 149
Downtown and the neighborhoods during the 1960s
p. 187
Lightning strikes : art and life during the 1960s
p. 221
The 1970s a decade of loss
p. 255
Judge curtin strives to create a new kind of community
p. 279
The 1980s : where are we going?
p. 301
Strange bedfellows : why bad things happen to good cities
p. 329
What's going on? : buffalo at the turn of the twenty-first century
p. 361
Now is the time restoring a sense of place
p. 387
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