City on the verge : Atlanta and the fight for America's urban future / Mark Pendergrast.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pendergrast, Mark (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Georgia > Atlanta.
Community development > Georgia > Atlanta.
City planning > Georgia > Atlanta.
Urban policy > Georgia > Atlanta.
Social stratification > Georgia > Atlanta.
City planning.
Community development.
Social stratification.
Urban policy.
Urban renewal.
Georgia > Atlanta.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Physical Description:xix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Atlanta's livable future
  • Walking the BeltLine
  • Ryan Gravel's epiphany
  • City on the move
  • First bumps along the BeltLine
  • Two Atlantas: the racial divide
  • Learning to fly while building an airplane
  • Mansions and cat holes
  • A stake in the ground
  • The public's health
  • Impossible but inevitable
  • East BeltLine: chic, walkable neighborhoods
  • South BeltLine: a slow dance to better communities
  • West BeltLine: trouble and promise
  • North BeltLine: easy streets
  • Outside and inside the BeltLine
  • The future of Atlanta
  • Epilogue: Georgia on my mind.