1. Buffalo International Airport before it was Buffalo International Airport. Outside Cheektowaga, NY 1927. This photo depresses me like few other aerials could. For the men that planned these runways and thruways, these gashes must have felt orgasmic to make — What! Progress! We’re! Making! — but to me they memorialize the absolute failure that was the planning of America’s communities. Will we ever have another chance to do this over? So much landscape gone. Such innocence lost! See the airport and surrounding community now.

    Buffalo International Airport before it was Buffalo International Airport. Outside Cheektowaga, NY 1927.

    This photo depresses me like few other aerials could. For the men that planned these runways and thruways, these gashes must have felt orgasmic to make — What! Progress! We’re! Making! — but to me they memorialize the absolute failure that was the planning of America’s communities. Will we ever have another chance to do this over? So much landscape gone. Such innocence lost!

    See the airport and surrounding community now.

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  1. ifightevil reblogged this from zachklein and added:
    airport is eight miles from the city center. How much closer in do you want it...save the...
  2. bendelaney reblogged this from zachklein and added:
    I share your depression over this. I love/hate looking at photos of my home area,
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