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Author:   Peter H. Christensen
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501749773

ISBN 10:   1501749773
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Buffalo at the Crossroads Part I: Buffalo as Territory 1. ""The Olmsted City"": Heritage Landscapes and Civic Identity in Twentieth-Century Buffalo 2. The Peace Bridge and the Rhetoric of Hospitality at the US-Canada Border 3. Of Silo Dreams and Deviant Houses: Uneven Geographies of Abandonment in Buffalo, New York Part II: Buffalo as Utopia 4. ""In the Thought of the World"": Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building 5. Max Abramovitz's Temple Beth Zio: ""An Airport for the Spirit, Where the Soul Takes Off for Heaven"" 6. Putting the Rust in Rust Belt: Architectural Tourism and Industrial Heritage 7. Anticipating Imags: Buffalo Industry under Construction, 1906–1943 Part III: Buffalo as Experiment 8. In the Buffalo Community, but Not of It: Polish Migrants, Urban Poverty, and the American Nation in Buffalo at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9. Upstate and Downstate Avant-Gardes: Artists and Artist Communities in Postindustrial Buffalo and New York City during the 1970s 10. Lake Effect: Art and Childhood in 1970s Buffalo Part IV: Buffalo as Palimpsest 11. Rust Belt Cosmopolitanism: Resettlement Urbanism in Buffalo, New York 12. Cropping the View: Reyner Banham and the Image of Buffalo Coda"

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Peter H. Christensen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Germany and the Ottoman Railways.

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