I have found this article on Atlanta Journal Constitution Online about suburban sprawl in Atlanta. It argues that contrary to its vast size, Atlanta still has politics and policies of a small town. With the upcoming elections, candidates are not offering anything new but raising taxes, both liberals and conservatives to lower urban sprawl. Another interesting point that the author makes is that the commercial and residential downtown of Metro Atlanta is somewhere between Cumberland and Perimeter Malls, which means that what is called uptown today is the very center of commercial activity and residences, which is pretty apalling.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Gentrification
Having talked anout Urban Decay, I felt the necessity of mentioning gentrification in the blog. Gentrification is defined as the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.
Gentrification generally raises the property values and general look of a neighborhood, generally in urban centers. It is generally thought that with the rise in property values, the lower-income residents leave so there is a loss of the greater community compare to the gain in property value. However, it is argued is a Usa Today article that gentrification makes everyone better off. This is true simply because old residents dont get to move as it is said to and new residents that coem in bring wealth and liveliness to the neighborhood.
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Gentrification generally raises the property values and general look of a neighborhood, generally in urban centers. It is generally thought that with the rise in property values, the lower-income residents leave so there is a loss of the greater community compare to the gain in property value. However, it is argued is a Usa Today article that gentrification makes everyone better off. This is true simply because old residents dont get to move as it is said to and new residents that coem in bring wealth and liveliness to the neighborhood.
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Urban Decay in Atlanta
According to Wikipedia, urban decay is the sociological process whereby a city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude, with depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.
Although it is said to become better, I have observed some terrible examples of urban decay in Downtown Atlanta. Most streets around Underground Atlanta are barren and desolate with creepy buildings around. Buildings on those streets look like ghost town buildings that we see on movies. I felt bad for the city of Atlanta because although it is developing rapidly, all the wealth is flowing to the suburbs and no urban culture like in Europe or in San Francisco can be created where artist and wealthy communities reside downtown.
Below is a photograph of the abandoned Medical Arts Buliding just south of I-20 in downtown Atlanta, in a very central location but left alone for decades.
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Although it is said to become better, I have observed some terrible examples of urban decay in Downtown Atlanta. Most streets around Underground Atlanta are barren and desolate with creepy buildings around. Buildings on those streets look like ghost town buildings that we see on movies. I felt bad for the city of Atlanta because although it is developing rapidly, all the wealth is flowing to the suburbs and no urban culture like in Europe or in San Francisco can be created where artist and wealthy communities reside downtown.
Below is a photograph of the abandoned Medical Arts Buliding just south of I-20 in downtown Atlanta, in a very central location but left alone for decades.
Can AmadoNew York Mania
Although I have been to NYC once before, I have fallen in love with New York on thanksgiving break. So I decided to look for blogs about New York. While I was looking for blogs, I found http://www.nycbloggers.com/, a site dedicated to hosting blogs of New Yorkers. Blogs were sort out according to where the authors live and were shown on the subway map. The subway is of utmost importance to New Yorkers, and this map proves how people are categorized by which subways stop they are living near.
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Can cemeteries be good, ever?
On thanksgiving break I travelled to New York City to visit a friend of mine who moved there. While I was planning for the trip, I was looking for interesting places to visit, different than the usuak tourist spots like Fifth Avenue, Soho and Statue of Liberty. I found a very interesting blog called Forgotten NY. In relation to our blog adn how it may relate to Forgotten Ny, I found an interesting post about suburban sprawl in Staten Island borough of NYC. According to this article, the old cemeteries of Staten Island are very valuable green spots due to rising suburban sprawl and dimininsihing green spaces. I personally have never liked cemeteries nor enjoyed being in them. However, looking from this perspective, cemeteries are public green spaces that are open to everyone, a serene oasis in the middle of suburbia or in dense urban centres, just like the Trinity Church Cemetery in the Financial District at Manhattan.
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