USA Sprawl Festival continued: Buffalo

[James Bond Agent 007]

Link to the first thread in this series:
USA Sprawl Festival (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=112959)

Or, click on the following links to see just individual cities in that thread:

Kansas City (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2240987&postcount=1)
Some northern Denver suburbs (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241038&postcount=3)
Albuquerque (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241043&postcount=4)
Seattle (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241046&postcount=6)
Las Vegas (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241049&postcount=7)
Dallas-Fort Worth (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241120&postcount=15)
Some western & southern Minneapolis suburbs (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2241150&postcount=16)
Orange County, California (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2242458&postcount=33)
Philadelphia (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2243795&postcount=39)
Tucson (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2244020&postcount=40)
Orlando (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2246260&postcount=54)
Northern Virginia/DC (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2248127&postcount=77)
Cleveland (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2248415&postcount=79)
Houston (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2250662&postcount=126)
Atlanta (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2252845&postcount=148)
Indianapolis (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2255900&postcount=169)
Long Island, New York (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2258869&postcount=186)
Jacksonville (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2262283&postcount=188)
Boston (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2288881&postcount=198)

And the 2nd round ones:

Phoenix-East (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=115970)
Phoenix-South (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=115974)
Phoenix-North (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=115972)
Phoenix-West (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=115971)
Portland (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116211)
Silicon Valley (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=2342500)
Los Angeles (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116366)
San Bernardino County (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116460)
San Diego - south (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116473)
San Diego - north (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=116668)

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BUFFALO

Oh yeah . . . Buffalo!!! :banana:

:D

When I was going through Windows Live Local to do this, it looked like Buffalo had more sprawl under construction than did Boston!

Let's take the train to Buffalo. Lots of trains to choose from. :D
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/636/buffalo1je1.jpg

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7415/buffalo2zs5.jpg

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2628/buffalo3dk7.jpg

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/6897/buffalo4ni5.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2923/buffalo5xa7.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8364/buffalo6gy0.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1169/buffalo7cp5.jpg

Go Bills! :banana:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5663/buffalo8qr3.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/483/buffalo9mr5.jpg

Yay! A trailer park!
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1166/buffalo10ew2.jpg

This was down near Hamburg, I think.
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2333/buffalo11jk2.jpg

NOT sprawl. I thought I'd put this here so you could compare it with the actual sprawl. :D
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7657/buffalo12hm6.jpg

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2778/buffalo13bu3.jpg

The requisite mall.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6187/buffalo14zm4.jpg

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2485/buffalo15ea6.jpg

Again, not really sprawl - maybe. Just for comparison purposes. :) Though it's not as dense as the other one above.
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6763/buffalo16jp2.jpg

This has nothing at all to do with sprawl, and it's not even in the US. I just put it here cause it's such a cool picture!
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8496/buffalo17cu0.jpg

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2447/buffalo18zh6.jpg

Since this is Buffalo we're talking about, gotta include a couple factories.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9915/buffalo19iu0.jpg

Another factory.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8414/buffalo20tl3.jpg

New stuff under construction.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3587/buffalo21tz6.jpg

Some more recently-built stuff.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8889/buffalo22ck5.jpg

A grid, but definitely sprawl.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/6135/buffalo23zx1.jpg

This was waaaay far out to the east.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6359/buffalo24xn6.jpg

[mrussell83]

Eak... And it just keeps coming.
At least Downtown Buffalo is getting some new development too.

[Sulley]

Buffalo'd!

[zerokarma]

I love this series!

[SpongeG]

wow

so many of those places don't have fenced yards

i can't imagine living without a fence

[gregduh]

The galleria is being expanded right now too, there will be a Cheesecake Factory and Barnes&Noble where part of that parking ramp is, and a new Regal Cinema. I can also claim to have played tennis in gym class on those courts in the upper left of the picture of the mall. It's pretty ridiculous here, and the worst part of the sprawl is the ugly as shit UB north campus. It's like a self-contained small city right outside of a city that could have used the campus to take up some of the large amount of space it has to offer. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

[GeorgeLV]

Yowsers. You could fit 8 of the Las Vegas "computer chip" sprawl houses on one of those huge Buffalo lots. Just look at those ridiculous driveways, you could have 10 people over without anyone having to park on the street.

[Evergrey]

disturbing images

[dharper6]

I've noticed when traveling to the northeast that a lot of new neighborhoods are carved out of the woods and almost all trees are cut down, and not replanted. A person in a coffee shop in NH told me that many people don't want trees, because they want all the light possible in the gray months. I guess that makes sense. In states like Texas where summers are so hot, we keep most of our trees in the forested areas like East Texas, and in non-woodsy areas we plant them so that when the neighborhood ages, it becomes shaded for the brutal summeres and becomes attractive. Maybe it is indeed just a factor of climate. I don't really know. Any thoughts on that?

[Awkab]

Why do so many people need pools in Buffalo? Is this the new suburban status symbol? I grew up in sprawl in Philadelphia, but I don't remember many people having pools then (left in 2001).

[Evergrey]

Why do so many people need pools in Buffalo? Is this the new suburban status symbol? I grew up in sprawl in Philadelphia, but I don't remember many people having pools then (left in 2001).

The private pool has been a status symbol everywhere I've ever been in my lifetime. A lack of community pools could increase private pools... but even with nearby community pools... many people buy their own. And if you're living in the type of sprawl in these photos, kids can't walk or bike to community pools anyways.

[CGII]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7657/buffalo12hm6.jpg

Reminds me of Milwaukee's housing stock. If there were more trees and less pastel colour paints, I'd probably tell you that was Milwaukee.

[BUFFALOVE!!]

Its a friggen shame...

[sprtsluvr8]

The pools are for gazing and reflecting, not swimming. :)

[Jeeper]

None of the links are working for me.

[OfCourse]

Yucky! These don't help my hangover. Ha. :yuck: