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Outer Limits
Sprawling Atlanta seeks new routes to the future |
Robert DiGiacomo |
14 May 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| The City in the Forest hopes to get back to its roots. Despite its reputation as a city of wall-to-wall subdivisions, office complexes, and shopping centers, Atlanta's not a complete stranger to matters of green. At the time of its mid-19th century founding, in the woods at the end of a railroad line, it was called the "City in the Forest." And in the early 20th century, the city created the 1 ... |
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| Topics: Georgia, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics) |
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