Title
Historic Preservation in an Economic Void: Reviving Buffalo’s Concrete Atlantis
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Planning History
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
This article explores experimental historic preservation practices at Silo City, a cultural campus “built” around three vacant grain elevators in Buffalo, New York. Amid the not-fully-deindustrialized landscape that Reyner Banham famously called a “Concrete Atlantis,” these practices operate outside traditional adaptive reuse markets, without significant public funding, and exploit historic industrial sites in their “as is” condition. This article argues that these practices have the potential to redefine preservation as an accessible and enjoyable practice rather than a means to a historically rigorous restoration or expansive local development stimulus; and are well suited for hard-to-preserve industrial sites in declining cities.
DOI
10.1177/1538513216629791
Keywords
Economic Advancement
Disciplines
Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Campo, Daniel Morgan State University, "Historic Preservation in an Economic Void: Reviving Buffalo’s Concrete Atlantis" (2016). School of Architecture and Planning. 9.
https://research.paynecenter.org/morgan_sap/9