Buffalo's Waterfront Renaissance: Citizen Activists, NGOs, and the Canalside Project - Hardcoverby Gene Bunnell (Author) This book tells the remarkable story of howBuffalo's post industrial waterfront was reclaimed for public use and enjoyment and pays tribute to the many local citizens and nongovernmental organizations that made the city's waterfront renaissance possible. After years of litigation, public controversy and debate, preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading the state to abandon its contentious plans