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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
