Clint Brown discusses Olmsted’s Elmwood

“Buffalo… who knew” that one of the city’s neighborhoods has been recognized as one of the country’s 10 best neighborhoods by the American Planning Association? Elmwood Village, which started to take form in the post-Civil War period, was developed as a city within a park framework—in this case, Frederick Law Olmsted’s Delaware Park. Elmwood then went into a period of decline from the 1920s until the 1990s but has experienced 20+ years of resurgence, growth, and in-migration. Today, it represents one of the [...]