Buffalo

Highway Removals to Become More Difficult

Following highly publicized urban highway removal success stories like Boston's Big Dig and San Francisco's Embarcadero, Anthony Flint asks whether similar successes will be easy to duplicate.
10 January 2012 - 8:00am
The Atlantic Cities

Buffalo Poised for Success, Says Planner

Buffalo, NY urban planner Chris Hawley is excited about the possibilities for his city, explaining that the Rust Belt infrastructure already in place gives Buffalo a leg up over cities built later in history.
9 November 2011 - 10:00am
Next American City

Going Local in Buffalo

Part of Buffalo, New York's decline, writes Amy Kedron, involved a shift from local to non-local ownership of businesses. A movement is afoot to encourage businesses to "Think Local First."
5 September 2011 - 1:00pm
Next American City

Revitalizing Buffalo's Waterfront

Buffalo, New York is restoring portions of its historic waterfront into a 2-acre, walkable, mixed-use neighborhood.
12 May 2011 - 10:00am
The Architect's Newspaper

$1 Homes to Urban Homesteaders in Buffalo

City of Buffalo program has inspired a small and growing movement of "homesteaders" who are buying City-owned houses for one dollar and rehabbing them.
14 April 2011 - 12:00pm
WKBW.com

Waterfront Planning in a Shrinking City

What happens when a major retailer pulls out of a waterfront redevelopment project?
14 September 2010 - 8:00am
Artvoice Buffalo NY

True Historic Buildings At Risk, As Faux Historic Buildings Spring Up

Even as the City of Buffalo is spending millions to build new historically appropriate buildings on the waterfront, true historic buildings are allowed to be destroyed mere blocks away, says Donn Esmonde.
5 September 2010 - 5:00am
The Buffalo News

An Obstructionist Manifesto

In a recent speech, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called the people who spoke out against a Bass Pro Shop "obstructionists." One of those obstructionists speaks out about the city's economic development processes, which he calls
5 August 2010 - 12:00pm
The Buffalo News

A Self-Sustaining Urban Fish Farm

The Massachusetts Avenue Project in Buffalo's West Side is an urban fish farm designed to be a completely self-sustaining ecosystem, with food for the fish grown on the premises.
28 April 2010 - 11:00am
Buffalo News

Buffalo to Implement Citywide Green Code

Mayor Byron Brown announced that the city's new code will be the "Buffalo Green Code," supporting walkable, sustainable neighborhoods.
24 April 2010 - 9:00am
Buffalo Rising

Church to Move 1,000 Miles For New Congregation

Mary Our Queen Catholic Church in Norcross, Georgia needs a new building. Rather than build a modern box, they're moving a historic basilica all the way from Buffalo, New York, calling their strategy "preservation by relocation".
6 March 2010 - 1:00pm
PlaceMakers blog

The Planetizen News Brief - 12/24/09


4:35 minutes (4.2 MB)

Transit dips in 2008, Buffalo preserves by neglect, and San Francisco expands its borders -- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, airing weekly on "Smart City". Read, listen or download.

24 December 2009 - 5:00am

Buffalo's 'Preservation By Neglect'

Buffalo, New York has managed to preserve most of its historic buildings due to a lack of economic drive to replace them. Now that Buffalo is doing better, preservationists are hoping to use those assets for revitalization.
17 December 2009 - 12:00pm
USA Today

Buffalo Architecture Snubs the Street

Tim Tielman, executive director of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo takes a look at the new Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the terrible lack of "eyes on the street" there.
10 December 2009 - 12:00pm
Planning Commissioners Journal

On Remaking Shrinking Cities

This week's Smart City features discussions with Harvard economist Ed Glaeser about shrinking cities, and with urban design critic Randy Gragg about interactive art and urban design projects.
8 November 2009 - 9:00am
Smart City

Cheap Homes, Meet New Immigrants

Adam Matthews of GOOD Magazine looks at the $500 homes in places like Buffalo and sees opportunity for new immigrants, which in turn could help turn these places around.
19 May 2009 - 9:00am
GOOD Magazine

The City Makes a Comeback

Nicolai Ouroussof uses four cities--New Orleans, Los Angeles, The Bronx, and Buffalo--as case studies on how America's urban areas, long neglected, can once again be great.
2 April 2009 - 1:00pm
The New York Times

A Blueprint For Making Cities Efficient, Sustainable And Livable

Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic for The New York Times, argues that the time is right for a new vision of rebirth for America's ailing cities. He applies this new vision to the challenges of New Orleans, Los Angeles, the Bronx, and Buffalo.
30 March 2009 - 10:00am
The New York Times

Buffalo Adopting SmartCode

Commissioner of Economic Development Brian Reilly makes the case to overhaul the city's 1951 zoning ordinance to a form-based SmartCode.
26 December 2008 - 7:00am
Buffalo News

Buffalo at a Crossroads

Nicolai Ouroussoff tells the tale of Buffalo, a quintessential rust belt city that seems committed to preserving its architectural heritage but unsure about its future.
18 November 2008 - 2:00pm
The New York Times
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