Buffalo Buffalo: Preserving a City

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Buffalo has been called one of the most beautifully-planned cities in the nation. At the end of the 19th and into the 20th century, America's greatest architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Stanford White, built public buildings and private residences for its citizens. Buffalo also boasts a park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. These masterpieces have survived, despite recent decades of declining population and an eroding industrial base - a familiar story in the great northeastern urban centers. How? Why? The late Linda Levine, former art and architecture critic for Buffalo Spree Magazine, in collaboration with local author Maria Scrivani answers these and other questions about the preservation movement. The book features archival and contemporary photographs of the sites that make Buffalo a mecca for acolytes of great architects and preservation pilgrims.