English: As seen in July 2022: the Parkside Houses are a 33-building, 180-unit apartment complex that makes up part of the Audubon New Community in Amherst, New York. One of three master-planned "new communities" developed by the New York State Urban Development Corporation (the first of their kind in the United States whose development was spearheaded by an organ of a state government), the initial proposal for Audubon was for a plot of land in the northwest part of the town, abutting the north side of the then-new North Campus of the University at Buffalo and otherwise bounded by Campbell Boulevard, a never-built western extension of Schoelles Road through what's now Nature View Park, and Sweet Home Road. On those 1,800 acres would live a population of 27,500 residents living in 8,600 dwelling units, comprising both detached single-family houses and multifamily apartment buildings and about 35% of which would be reserved for individuals of low income, while a small-scale business district would complement but not compete with other office and industrial complexes planned for the immediate vicinity (not all of which were ultimately realized). The development would follow the principles of New Urbanism, a then-newly emerging school of urban design that advocated for the creation of self-contained communities that are higher in density than standard suburbs yet also more verdant, with plenty of green space that incorporates preexisting natural features of the landscape, and with the automobile de-emphasized in favor of alternative modes of transportation such as walking, bicycling, and public transit (the latter in the form of a never-realized outward extension of the Buffalo Metro Rail) so as to reduce sprawl and keep housing costs affordable. The Parkside Houses were part of the initial wave of construction that began in 1973; although the first residents moved in two years later, progress was quickly stymied by a combination of economic recession, an unexpectedly low volume of applications for residency, and budget cuts to the Urban Development Corporation, resulting in the eventual scaling back of the project's scope to its present-day size of 522 acres (which themselves weren't fully built out until the 1990s) and population of about 3,000. Now fully resident-owned through the cooperative Audubon Association, the Audubon New Community - along with the adjacent university campus - is almost inarguably the best showcase in Western New York for post-midcentury Modernist architecture, with the "shed style" (aka "Sea Ranch style" or "Third Tradition") especially well attested despite its marked rarity elsewhere in the region. The style's trademark wood-slat siding, shed roofs sloping at diverse angles, and contrast between recessed and projecting exterior elements are very much in evidence here.