Entries tagged with Buffalo
From a compelling article by Bruce Fisher:
"In Buffalo, City Hall says it has a plan for vacant land, and that its plan doesn’t include turning vacant lots into farms. City Hall actively opposed land-banking legislation, and got Governor Paterson to veto a land-bank bill just last year.
…The Magic of a Creative City
March 29, 2009
Kudos to Jamie Moses, Artvoice publisher in Buffalo, for his magical and brutally honest remarks upon accepting the city's annual Arts Award. If you want to understand the power of a creative city, you must read his speech.
Where the Urban Dream Is Going Cheap
September 1, 2008
New York is all about what could be -- the potential, the possibilities. But trying to make it in New York is also expensive and frsutrating. As Adam Sternbergh writes in New York mag, "New York requires of these dreamers that they puruse two simultaneous lives: the romantic, invigorating,…
Another Take on Ed Glaeser's Advice to Buffalo
April 21, 2008
Charity Vogel didn't much like Ed Glaeser's admonition to Buffalo to think small. Instead, she urges Buffalo to follow Richard Florida's advice to think big -- as in, mega-region of Rochester, Toronto and Buffalo. Glaeser was asked specifically about the potential of mega-regions, and he response was, essentially, not much.
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Can Buffalo Ever Come Back?
April 19, 2008
That was the question Harvard professor Ed Glaeser asked last August in City Journal. His conclusion was, "Probably not, and government should probably stop bribing people to stay there."
Well, more than a few Buffalonians took umbrage at that. So a few brave souls, led by Kate Foster, Director of…