Buffalo at the Crossroads

This book is a diverse set of twelve cutting-edge chapters that highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. The chapters consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture. The chapters examine Buffalo's architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world's fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city's economic fate. The book pays attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. The book is a compelling introduction to Buffalo's architecture and developed landscape that frames discussion about the city.

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. and, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey. and, Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914, by Zeynep Çelik.A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 241 pp. $42.000 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper).Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 342 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $25.99 (paper).Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914, by Zeynep Çelik. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2008. xiii, 337 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.46.2.442 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 442-447

Author(s):

Wayne H. Bowen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Princeton University ◽

History Of ◽

Late Ottoman Empire ◽

The City ◽

Washington University ◽

Late Ottoman

The Charity of Richard Whittington: A History of the Trust Administered by the Mercers' Company, 1424–1966, By Jean Imray. ([London:] University of London, Athlone Press; distrib. by Oxford University Press, New York. 1968. Pp. viii, 138. $5.95.), The Curriers and the City of London: A History of the Worshipful Company of Curriers. By Edward Mayer. ([London:] Worshipful Company of Curriers. 1968. Pp. ix, 212. 3 gs.) and A History of the Carpenters Company. By B. W. E. Alford and T. C. Barker. ([Hamden, Conn.:] Archon Books. 1969. Pp. 271. $9.50.)

10.1086/ahr/75.3.845 ◽

1970 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Oxford University ◽

History Of ◽

City Of London ◽

The City ◽

Oxford University Press

Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004

Academe ◽

10.2307/40252687 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 90 (5) ◽

pp. 82

Author(s):

Katherine Reynolds Chaddock ◽

Robert A. McCaughey

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Columbia University ◽

History Of ◽

“The Principal Russian Church in America”: from the History of Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the City of New York

Istoriya ◽

10.18254/s207987840017595-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (11 (109)) ◽

pp. 0

Author(s):

Vladimir Pechatnov

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

The United States ◽

Russian Orthodox ◽

History Of ◽

Ministry Of Finance ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

Foreign Ministry ◽

Based on previously unearthed documents from the Russia’s State Historical Archive and the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire the article explores the history of the first Russian Orthodox parish in New York City and construction of Saint-Nickolas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the city. It was a protracted and complicated interagency process that involved Russian Orthodox mission in the United States, Russia’s Foreign Ministry and its missions in the United States, the Holy Governing Synod, Russia’s Ministry of Finance and the State Council. The principal actors were the bishops Nicholas (Ziorov) and especially Tikhon (Bellavin), Ober-Prosecutor of the Holy Governing Synod Konstantine Pobedonostsev and Reverend Alexander Khotovitsky. This case study of the Cathedral history reveals an interaction of ecclesiastical and civil authorities in which private and civic initiative was combined with strict bureaucratic rules and procedures.

New York at its Core: A Review of an Exhibition at the City Museum of New York

New Global Studies ◽

10.1515/ngs-2018-0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 103-106

Author(s):

Thomas Wide

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

History Of ◽

AbstractThomas Wide visits a recent exhibition on the history of New York City

History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century

10.2307/1835453 ◽

1909 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 155

Author(s):

J. H. Innes ◽

Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

History Of ◽

Reviews: Aspects of Modern Sociology. Structures and Processes of Urban Life, the Built Environment Series. An Introduction to Urban Renewal, Reviving the Industrial City: The Politics of Urban Renewal in Lyon and Birmingham, Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses, Policing Pollution: A Study of Regulation and Enforcement, Regional Development Agencies in Europe: An International Comparison of Selected Agencies, the New York—Newark Air Freight System, the City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a160839 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 839-848

Author(s):

C Hamnett ◽

A Cox ◽

L McDowell ◽

R J C Munton ◽

R Butlin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Urban Renewal ◽

Cultural Theory ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Urban Life ◽

Spatial Change ◽

Urban Social Movements ◽

Science Courses ◽

Industrial City ◽

Sam Bass Warner, Jr. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. New York: Harper and Row. 1972. Pp. xvii, 303. $12.50 and Arthur Mann et al. History and the Role of the City in American Life. (Indiana Historical Society Lectures, 1971–1972.) Indianapolis: the Society. 1972. Pp. 65. $1.50

10.1086/ahr/78.4.1115 ◽

1973 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

American City ◽

Historical Society ◽

American Life ◽

History Of ◽

History of Florence from the Founding of the City through the Renaissance. By Ferdinand Schevill. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1936. Pp. xxxiv, 536. $5.00.)

10.1086/ahr/42.4.723 ◽

1937 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

History Of ◽

Urban Formalism

10.5422/fordham/9780823288045.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Faflik

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Cultural History ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

The West ◽

Urban Experience ◽

Street Protest ◽

History Of ◽

New Form ◽

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity. What did it mean to read a city sidewalk as if it were a literary form, like a poem? On what basis might the material form of a burning block of buildings be received as a pleasurable spectacle? How closely aligned were the ideology and choreography of the political form of a revolutionary street protest? And what were the implications of conceiving of the city’s exciting dynamism in the static visual form of a photographic composition? These are the questions that Urban Formalism asks and begins to answer, with the aim of proposing a revisionist semantics of the city. This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.