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City on the Verge - Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future (Hardcover)
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City on the Verge - Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future (Hardcover)
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Atlanta is on the verge of either tremendous rebirth or inexorable
decline. The perfect storm for failed American urban policies,
Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the entire country;
urban renewal attempts that unwittingly destroyed neighborhoods;
highways arrogantly blasted through the city center; the longest
commutes in the nation; suburban sprawl that impairs the
environment even as it erodes the urban tax base and exacerbates a
long history of racial injustice. While many cities across America
suffer from some or all of these problems,, nowhere but Atlanta
have they so dangerously collided. City on the Verge is a dramatic
story which reveals a troubled American city daring to imagine a
better future even as it struggles to define how such a future will
look. The most promising symbol of Atlanta's potential for rebirth
is the Beltline. A twenty-two mile ring of defunct rail lines,
running through forty neighborhoods that encircle Atlanta's
downtown, the Beltline is being transformed into a stunning
pedestrian walkway and street-car line. The hope of its backers is
that it will spur redevelopment, urban activism, community
organizing, and environmental awareness. Many see it is a model for
the next American city: walkable and accessible, diverse both
economically and racially. If it works, I will be a remarkable turn
of events: the Beltline's rail beds once served to segregate the
city by race. Yet as with all projects of massive social change,
the Beltline faces countless obstacles and fierce opponents,
including from those who see the Beltline serving to displace the
city's poorer black residents with wealthier white ones. But by
daring to confront these challenges head on, and to plan so far
into the future, Atlanta's Beltline exemplifies the very best
American cities have to offer its citizens. City on the Verge is
the remarkable story of a city using its greatest obstacles as
tools to remake its entire way of life. If Atlanta can reinvent
itself using the very tools that heralded its decline transforming
divisive railways into new public transit, decaying housing stock
into a thriving tax base, abandoned industry into new centers for
innovation then the city can serve as a model for countless other
cities left behind in recent years. City on the Verge offers a
moving narrative of ordinary Americans taking charge of their local
communities and daring to dream of a better future for all.
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