
Planning Atlanta
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2018
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-138-37384-6 (ISBN)
Description
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War's devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence.
In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. Together they trace the development of projects like Freedom Parkway and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. They examine the impacts of race relations on planning and policy. They explore Atlanta's role as a 19th-century rail hub-and as the home of the world's busiest airport. They probe the city's economic and environmental growing pains. And they look toward new plans that will shape Atlanta's next incarnation.
Read Planning Atlanta and discover a city where change is always in the wind.
In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. Together they trace the development of projects like Freedom Parkway and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. They examine the impacts of race relations on planning and policy. They explore Atlanta's role as a 19th-century rail hub-and as the home of the world's busiest airport. They probe the city's economic and environmental growing pains. And they look toward new plans that will shape Atlanta's next incarnation.
Read Planning Atlanta and discover a city where change is always in the wind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
20 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
20 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-37384-6 (9781138373846)
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Harley Etienne | Barbara Faga
Planning Atlanta
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02/2015
1st Edition
American Planning Association
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Persons
Harley F. Etienne is an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Barbara Faga is a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech and was a 2011 Fellow at AECOM.
Barbara Faga is a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech and was a 2011 Fellow at AECOM.
Editor
Harley F. Etienne, Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Content
Introduction Part 1 History 1. Learning from Atlanta 2. Changing Demographics and Unprecedented Growth 3. Downtown Atlanta After Bedford Pines: Creating Urban Reinvention 4. The Historic District Development Corporation and the Challenge of Urban Revitalization 5. Crazy Like the Fox: Atlanta's Preservation Schizophrenia 6. Public-Private Partnerships, Atlanta Style 7. Downtown Atlanta: Central Business District, Meeting Place and Sportsman's Paradise 8. Building Atlanta's Freedom Parkway Part 2 Diversity and Development Downtown and in the Neighborhoods 9. The History and Evolution of the Neighborhood Planning Units 10. HOPE VI and the Evolution of Public Housing in Atlanta 11. How Business Leaders Have Built Atlanta 12. Finding Gay Atlanta in the History of the City's Growth 13. Neighborhood Quality of Life and Health in Atlanta Part 3 Travel, Traffic and Transit Define a City 14. Regional Growth, Transportation and Congestion: The Atlanta Problem 15. Building Public Transit in Atlanta: From Streetcars to MARTA 16. From Transit as a Social Service to Transit as Congestion Relief: The Failure of Transit Planning in Atlanta 17. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport: A City of Its Own 18. Modern Streetcars Return to Atlanta 19. Planning to Get Stuck? Transforming Atlanta with the Beltline Project Part 4 Boom and Bust in the Resurgent City 20. The Legacy of the Centennial Olympic Games on the City of Atlanta 21. Rethinking Atlanta's Regional Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty: Still the Economic Engine of the South? 22. After the Crash: Foreclosures, Neighborhood Stability and Change 23. Building Atlanta's Land Bank Part 5 Planning Innovations and Challenges Shaping Atlanta's Future 24. Atlantic Station and Glenwood Park: New Urbanism Comes to Atlanta 25. Troubled Waters: Contextualizing the Failed Privatization of Atlanta's Water Supply System 26. Planning for the Forest and Trees 27. Atlanta's Academic Urbanism: University-Driven Real Estate Development 28. Atlanta's Role in the State of Georgia 29. Epilogue