I cant retrieve footprints from place information - osmnx

Question

enter code hereWhen I try to retrieve footprints from place name using
import osmx as ox
tags = {'building': True}
gdf = ox.geometries_from_place('Piedmont, California, USA', tags)
I get the following error message:
IllegalArgumentException: Argument must be Polygonal or LinearRing
PredicateError: Failed to evaluate <_FuncPtr object at 0x13a2ea120>
In the past, I have successfully used the old version to retrieve footprints ox.footprints_from_place(). However this does not work anymore, and neither does the new method. Does anybody had the same issues with the new version (1.0.1) of the osmnx package?
Due to stackoverflow restrictions I can't post the complete traceback message. It seems that osmnx does not create the required polygon. The first error entries are:
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PredicateError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-98877af3189c> in <module>
1 import osmnx as ox
2 tags = {'building': True}
----> 3 gdf = ox.geometries_from_place('Piedmont, California, USA', tags)
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geometries.py in geometries_from_place(query, tags, which_result, buffer_dist)
214
215 # create GeoDataFrame using this polygon(s) geometry
--> 216 gdf = geometries_from_polygon(polygon, tags)
217
218 return gdf
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geometries.py in geometries_from_polygon(polygon, tags)
264
265 # create GeoDataFrame from the downloaded data
--> 266 gdf = _create_gdf(response_jsons, polygon, tags)
267
268 return gdf
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geometries.py in _create_gdf(response_jsons, polygon, tags)
428
429 # Apply .buffer(0) to any invalid geometries
--> 430 gdf = _buffer_invalid_geometries(gdf)
431
432 # Filter final gdf to requested tags and query polygon
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geometries.py in _buffer_invalid_geometries(gdf)
891
892 # create a filter for rows with invalid geometries
--> 893 invalid_geometry_filter = ~gdf["geometry"].is_valid
894
895 # if there are invalid geometries
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/geopandas/base.py in is_valid(self)
168 """Returns a ``Series`` of ``dtype('bool')`` with value ``True`` for
169 geometries that are valid."""
--> 170 return _delegate_property("is_valid", self)
171
172 #property
The last traceback messages are :
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/shapely/predicates.py in __call__(self, this)
23 def __call__(self, this):
24 self._validate(this)
---> 25 return self.fn(this._geom)
/opt/anaconda3/envs/gerdaenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/shapely/geos.py in errcheck_predicate(result, func, argtuple)
582 """Result is 2 on exception, 1 on True, 0 on False"""
583 if result == 2:
--> 584 raise PredicateError("Failed to evaluate %s" % repr(func))
585 return result
586
PredicateError: Failed to evaluate <_FuncPtr object at 0x13a2ea120>