tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43781646141730396332024-03-13T02:22:44.943-04:00Atlanta ChronicledChronicling explorations of my newly adopted home of Atlanta. Each post focuses on a particular metro-Atlanta neighborhood, with some images, a little history, and a few totally biased observations.Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-85217204869168104452012-11-18T16:31:00.002-05:002012-11-18T17:11:20.905-05:00Clarkston<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our country's recent election results have the cable and internet political pundits focused obsessively on the demographics of a "new America," while many long-time established political leaders struggle to understand the shifts that have happened in the past couple of decades. The historical truth is, The United States has always been a land where newcomers arrive looking for opportunities and "The American Dream," and in doing so, they enhance the consistency of, and add new flavors to, our proverbial melting pot<i>. </i>They become Americans, and to a degree, America becomes them. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next demographic shifts are always happening in different parts of the nation, and one place where the next shift is already taking root is the Atlanta suburb of Clarkston. Located about twenty minutes to the east of downtown Atlanta, Clarkston has transformed in the past 25 years from a sleepy, unremarkable small railroad town on the edge of Atlanta, to, as the <i>New York Times</i> recently described it, "the most diverse square mile in America."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clarkston was founded in the 1830s, when the Georgia Railroad built a line through, what was at the time, mainly goat farms, and the area was often referred to as Goatsville and Angora Heights. General W.W. Clark was the director of the Georgia Railroad at the time of the railroad expansion, and Clarkston was named for him. Through most of the 1900s, Clarkston grew slowly and quietly on the edge of Atlanta and most of its residents were long-time Southerners. Then, in the early 1990s, Clarkston became designated by several federal and national refugee serving agencies as a good place to resettle newly-arrived refugees fleeing some of the world's most brutal regimes and horrifying wars. They arrived by the thousands, from Ethiopia, Viet Nam, Burma, Bosnia, Congo, Eritrea, Bhutan, South Sudan, Nepal, Gambia, <span class="st"> Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Somalia, Kosovo, Burundi, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sierra Leone. There are now more than 60,000 refugees in Clarkston proper and the surrounding neighborhoods. Clarkston High School teaches young people from over 50 nations, many of whom have survived unimaginable circumstances. As a friend of mine, who is a City of Clarkston council member recently told me, "our school challenges aren't standardized tests...our challenges are more along the lines of how to help students who were child soldiers, or saw their grandparents murdered in front of them." <br /><br />As with every new ethnic group before, the newcomers in Clarkston are becoming settled, getting educated, and starting businesses. There are Asian and African markets, Somali clothing stores, and its easy, in this small town, to find a restaurant serving Ethiopian, Eritrean, or Nepali cuisine. There are Buddhist temples, multi-cultural mosques, and Baptist churches on the same street. The Atlanta School for the Deaf, located in Clarkston, the remaining old-timers, and a thriving and growing LGBT community deepen the town's diversity even more. And, just last year, <i>Creative Loafing </i>named Clarkston as one of the "coolest" neighborhoods in Atlanta, and described it as a "post-hipster nesting place," and a "punk rock retirement village." Clarkston really is the world's small town. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">I've
been chronicling Atlanta for over three years now, and this chapter
really hits home for me, because I live in Dunaire, a next-door
neighbohood to Clarkston, and so this is really about <i>my </i>stomping
ground. It is an exciting place to call home, and I love having the
opportunity to watch the future of America take shape right in my
backyard. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<br />Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-15019094350892809472012-02-29T21:53:00.012-05:002012-03-01T00:13:20.181-05:00Candler Park<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">Atlanta is a Coke town. Maybe, more accurately put - Atlanta is the city that Coke built. Coca-Cola, one of the most recognizable logos on the planet, was invented here, is headquartered here, and employs a whole lotta people here. But, not a lot of people know the Coke story. </span><br style="color: cyan;" /><br style="color: cyan;" /><span style="color: cyan;">Back in 1885, an entrepreneurial druggist named John Pemberton, began selling his newly invented "Pemberton's French Wine Coca" to Atlanta's upper class. Pemberton's carbonated alcoholic concoction was infused with several key ingredients - caffeine from the kola nut, a mild sedative in the form of damiana , and cocaine. Pemberton sold his drink as a medicinal beverage to relieve the medical conditions, and suffering of the business class, brought on by the stress of living in Atlanta's urban environment. In 1886, Atlanta passed temperance laws to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol, and the ever-clever Pemberton reformulated his beverage by removing the alcohol and calling it Coca-Cola. In 1888, another business-minded drug store owner, Asa Candler, purchased the rights to the Coco-Cola name and formula for $2,300. Candler was a master of marketing, and in just a few decades, Coca-Cola became an American icon, albeit, after 1903, a cocaine-free icon. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">Asa Candler made millions off of his Coca-Cola acquisition, and he gave much back to his beloved City of Atlanta. He gave a million dollars and a land grant to Emory University, allowing the school to move from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta. He had built the Candler Building, still standing in downtown Atlanta, as well as the Candler Building in New York City's Times Square. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">In 1922, Asa Candler donated the 55 acres that are now known as Candler Park. Shortly after, the beautiful neighborhood surrounding the park became generally known as Candler Park. Just about 5 minutes east of Downtown Atlanta, Candler Park is bordered by Inman Park, Edgewood, Lake Claire, Druid Hills, and Little Five Points.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">Friendly, walkable, beautiful, full of quirky character and community mindedness, Candler Park is everything a neighborhood should be. Neighbors sit on their front porches and shoot the breeze with each other, and meet up at Dr. Bombay's Underwater Tea Party for tea, a pastry, and good conversation. It's that sort of community that inspired me to get back to this project after a year-long hiatus. Nearly 3 years into this journey, it's time to get back to chronicling Atlanta. </span></span></b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-86726513088799711592011-02-20T22:06:00.006-05:002011-02-20T22:34:55.686-05:00Poncey Highland<div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>As a transplant from Miami to Atlanta, it's been hard for me to publicly speak of one of the main avenues in the city - Ponce de Leon Avenue. In Miami, of course, Ponce de Leon is pronounced with a strong Spanish rhythm, and I spent years perfecting it. But, here in Atlanta, it's most often said as Pawntz-da-LEE-on. At some point, in the not too distant past, it must've been Poncey-da-lee-on, hence the neighborhood situated around the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Highland Avenue - Poncey Highland. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Poncey Highland was established as a "trolley suburb" around the turn of the last century, and most of the residences date to between 1905 and 1930. In 1914, the Ford Motor Company built a manufacturing plant, which was later used by the Air Force for storage, and in the 1980s was renovated as loft residences. In 1939, the art-deco Plaza Theater was built and, as a sign of the changing times, became Atlanta's first theater and shopping plaza with off-street parking. </b><br />
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<b>In the 1960s, the Georgia Department of Transportation began to acquire land to build a massive highway system and cloverleaf right through Poncey-Highland and the Copenhill neighborhood to the east. Residents organized, protested, and litigated against the destruction of their neighborhood, for many years. In the early 1970s, then-Governor Jimmy Carter, was able to stop the project and save most of Poncey Highland - but not before the entire neighborhood of Copenhill was demolished. The whole area declined, and the land where Copenhill had been sat vacant for nearly twenty years, until the opening of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in 1986. In 2000, Jimmy Carter was one of the ribbon-cutters for Freedom Park, which now meanders over the land that was once the Copenhill neighborhood. In the 1990s, and 2000s, Poncey Highland rode the wave of in-town resurgence, and became one of the city's most desirable neighborhoods. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Today, Poncey Highland is a perfect example of what makes Atlanta so cool. It's an in-town neighborhood, with an laid-back urban village vibe, lots of beautiful big trees and green space, eclectic shops and hip hangouts, and mostly older residential architecture with lots of early 20th-century character. In many ways, Poncey Highland is a transition neighborhood between slightly more affluent Virginia Highlands to the north and grittier Old Fourth Ward and Little Five Points to the south and east. Poncey Highland residents tend to be well-educated, progressive, and fairly affluent, and there is a bit of a "grown-up hippie" thing going on. It's not the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the city, with European-Americans as nearly 80% of the residents, but like a lot of in-town neighborhoods, there is a strong Gay presence, and a definite Gay-friendliness. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>There is a hidden Poncey Highland that I was lucky enough to stumble in to while exploring for this project. I hiked along the BeltLine (which is currently a series of abandoned rail lines that circle the core Atlanta neighborhoods and are slated to be transformed into a light-rail system with connecting parks and green spaces) and got an uncommon back-side view of the neighborhood. A lot of the shots I've chosen for this post are views from, literally, off the beaten path, but I think they still share a lot of Poncey Highland's essence. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>It's been nearly two years since I moved to Atlanta from Miami, and as I've tried to show here, I'm still fascinated by the prominence of texture and reflection of Atlanta, as compared to Miami's love of shape and color. </b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-2906290337516519162010-11-26T21:55:00.007-05:002010-11-26T22:17:38.542-05:00Avondale Estates<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atlanta is the business, spiritual, and cultural capitol of the South. It's a city of stories and history and, at the same time, a symbol of the New South and dreams of the future. And, maybe more than anything else, it is a city of distinct neighborhoods and diverse communities. In exploring the neighborhoods and communities of the metro region, I keep being struck by how often I find myself in places that don't remotely resemble what I thought Atlanta would look like before I first visited. Avondale Estates is most definitely one of those places.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About seven miles east of Downtown Atlanta, just beyond Decatur, at the turn of the last century, was a small village and a few large farms collectively known as Ingleside. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Ingleside was known for its idyllic country residences and farmlands, all so far from the bustle of the growing city. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1924, almost all of the land in Ingleside was purchased by a wealthy Atlanta businessman by the name of George Francis Willis. After a trip with his wife to picturesque Stratford-upon-Avon England, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Mr. Willis found himself inspired to recreate a quaint English Tudor-style village in the heart of America's South - so he purchased the land and hired an engineer and an architect to help him carry out his vision. He called his vision for the South's first planned community, Avondale Estates. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work started soon after the land was acquired. Within two years, the streets were laid out and paved, a Tudor-style commercial center and nearly fifty residences were built, along with a community park and pool. Just two years after that, a lake was created and seventy-five more homes, mostly English Tudor influenced, were completed. Construction all but stopped through the Depression era. In the years after World War II, Avondale Estates grew into one of Atlanta's most beautiful and affluent suburbs, and it remains so today. In 1986, the Avondale Estates Historic District was offically listed in the National Register of Historic Places, due to its wonderfully unique architecture and history as the only planned model community in America's South. </span></b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today, Avondale Estates is home to about 2,700 people., and the town is known for community participation and organization. It's not a particularly diverse community, ethnically speaking, and almost 90% of the residents are European-American. It has, however, attracted a signficant number of gay and lesbian couples due to its growing repuation as a liberal community, as well as its proximity to gay-friendly Decatur. Less than 3% of the population falls under the poverty line. </span></b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-83502701928205322232010-08-30T00:06:00.006-04:002010-08-30T18:49:18.468-04:00Chamblee<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recent American history gives us several vivid examples of how a cataclysmic, or monumental, event can fundamentally change the reality and character of a city. In Miami, in 1992, Hurricane Andrew changed the city forever, and at least for the rest or our lifetimes, New Orleans will mostly be referred to in terms of "pre-Katrina" and "post-Katrina." The 1996 Summer Olympics transformed Atlanta from a major city in the South, to a truly international and multicultural metropolis, and the inside-the-perimeter-but-independent municipality of Chamblee is at the very heart of the transformation. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atlanta was built on the legacy of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, and before 1996, Atlanta was a city seen in almost completely in black and white. In the 1970s, and 1980s, there were no significant immigrant populations, or ethnic enclaves, and Asians and Latinos made up less than 3% of the population as a whole. </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some still think of Atlanta as the capital of the Deep South, a city of old plantation homes, mint juleps, and "Designing Women" accents. I know I did, before I first visited in 2007. The 1996 Summer Olympics changed everything. A huge demand for workers to build Olympic venues and housing for athletes attracted huge numbers of immigrants looking for work and a better life. You can still order sweet tea just about anywhere, and Southern friendliness and hospitality are still the rule, but over the past 15 years, Metro Atlanta has shifted very dramatically into an impressively diverse and cosmopolitan city of the world. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chamblee, located just north and east of Buckhead, and south and west of Doraville, grew from a collection of dairy pastures and farms, and a military base in the early 1900s, to a small manufacturing town through the middle of the century. Frito-Lay, Kodak, and General Electric anchored the local economy, and the nearby Doraville General Motors plant employed many Chamblee residents. The Dekalb Peachtree Airport, occupying a large swath of town, grew in importance through the years, but in the 1980s, Chamblee was hit hard by manufacturing downsizing, and plant closings. Residents moved out, and local retail and restaurants shut their doors. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the late 1980s, local churches sponsored refugees from Southeast Asia, and a number of Chinese migrants - from both China and California - moved into Chamblee to take advantage of the cheap and available housing and easy accessibilty to MARTA. In the early 1990s, day laborers from Mexico and Central America began to arrive, and tensions rose between the nearly all white American old-timers and the immigrant newcomers. City council meetings were often marked by xenophobic remarks and anti-immigrant outrage. But, Chamblee city leaders decided to take advantage of the opportunities that the new residents were creating, and a deliberate effort was made to welcome immigrants to rent empty apartments and set up shop in abandoned strip malls. And in the few years preceding the Olympics, immigrant workers flocked to Chamblee, and neighboring Doraville, and in doing so, transformed Atlanta forever. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's worth noting that while Chamblee has transitioned from a quiet Atlanta suburb into a core of ethnic diversity, it has continuously been home to the federal headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control since 1942. Originally founded as the Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities the agency set forth with the mission of fighting malaria, which was a common affliction in the American South. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chamblee is centered around the main thoroughfare, Buford Highway which is lined with Vietnamese plazas, Chinese strip malls, and Mexican mini-malls. There is a lot of really remarkable overlap of these three dominant groups, and there are several places that announce their bargains in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese languages. Currently, a little more than 50% of the population is ethnically Mexican, with smaller, but significant, populations of Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans, and about 13% of Chamblee's residents are Vietnamese-American. Atlanta has the fastest growing Chinese population of any metro area in the United States - now nearing 100,000 - and with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center, the Chinese School of Atlanta, and the Chinatown Mall, Chamblee is the cultural heart of Metro Atlanta's Chinese community. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To the west of Buford Highway, and north of the county airport, sits Antique Row - a village main street of vintage buildings and converted old homes now selling rare antiques and collectibles. In more ways than one, it's a quiet reminder of Chamblee's not-too-distant past - a sort of oasis of olden days. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, Chamblee was a particularly exciting and inspiring neighborhood to explore. In keeping with one of the main themes of this project, I looked for images of texture and reflection, and found a lot of subject matter. Also, I tried to capture the cultural flavor of Chamblee, without being too literal. Welcome to the new Deep South.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-2240742952060381172010-08-11T00:50:00.012-04:002010-08-11T09:41:22.210-04:00West End<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">About a five minute drive southwest of Downtown Atlanta and Castleberry Hill, the neighborhood of West End stands proud and steeped in history, culture, and architectural beauty. West End is, in some ways an inner-city small town. It has a thriving and very walkable main street, Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, lined with shops and restaurants, places of worship, and the West End Mall - and it is surrounded by some of the oldest and most architecturally interesting homes in all of Atlanta. Residents have known each other for years, and still the community is a part of Atlanta's urban central core.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1830, the area now known as West End was simply a crossroads. The Newnan Road connected the small town of Newnan with Decatur, and crossed over the Sandtown Road which went west into the Native-American village of Sandtown - or Oktahasasi in Creek. In the early 1830s, the Whitehall Inn was built near the crossroads, and development followed over the next decades. </span></b></div><br />
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</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The aging West End neighborhood struggled through the mid-20th Century and then the collapse of Jim Crowe and segregation laws in the 1960s brought large numbers of African-Americans to the neighborhood. With three historically Black college campuses - Spelman, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta - just a few blocks away, African-American professors and students took advantage of the close proximity and beautiful old homes available. Now, West End is about 96% African-American. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The influence of African-American academics and thought leaders has given West End a very distinct character. While other historic African-American neighborhoods, like Sweet Auburn and The Old Fourth Ward, are colored by their prominence in the years of the Civil Rights Movement, West End has a visible and strong post-sixties Afrocentric vibe. West African dashikis, kaftans and head wraps are common street attire. There's a prominent African-American Islamic center, and The Shrine of the Black Madonna - a congregation of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church. On the main strip, there are several African-American bookstores, shops selling African decor and clothing, and a popular vegetarian soul food restaurant. </span></b></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Before the European conquest, the area now known as East Atlanta was home to the Creeks, and the current Flat Shoals Road was a Creek trail used for trading with their Cherokee neighbors who lived on the north side of the Chattahoochee River. After the forced removal of the Creek people, the area was sparsely populated until well after the Civil War. In 1915, the growing suburb of East Atlanta was annexed by the City of Atlanta, and the new Atlanta neighborhood continued to attract new residents and businesses for several decades. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>In the 1960s, East Atlanta was targeted by Civil Rights groups as an example of a racially segregated neighborhood (and home to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan). Middle Class African-American families took advantage of the Fair Housing Act, and moved into the neighborhood, and many long-time European-American residents moved out. In their rush to join the "White flight," many sold their homes at ridiculously low prices to slumlords which, in turn, caused the neighborhood to decline in value and appearance. Like too many in-town Atlanta neighborhoods, East Atlanta continued to suffer from low property values, blighted buildings, and high crime for too many years. In 1981, the East Atlanta Community Association was formed, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that the association's efforts began to attract new residents and businesses. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Over the past decade, East Atlanta has become not-so-arguably the hippest and edgiest neighborhood in the city - while managing to create an authentic and solid sense of community. Long-time African-American families live peacefully next door to purple-haired hipsters in craftsman bungalows. Aspiring young rappers mingle with heavily tattooed aging punks at Joe's coffee shop, and the Earl has become the most important indie music spot in the entire city. The gay community has set up shop in East Atlanta in a big way, and Mary's is now one of the best gay bars in the city, while a few doors down, My Sister's Room is the most popular lesbian bar in Atlanta. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>In spite of the "happening" nature of East Atlanta, the vibe is still surprisingly laid-back and not pretentious. It really does feel like a small town - a very cool small town - but a small town nonetheless, and in terms of subject matter for this project, it definitely did not disappoint. The textures, and colors, and street art, and points of reflection that so often define Atlanta's neighborhoods, are in no short supply in East Atlanta. </b></span></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-89370621552961990372010-06-06T22:34:00.001-04:002010-07-11T00:11:15.483-04:00Pine Lake<div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Pine Lake is an urban explorer's dream - a hidden neighborhood, that no one seems to be familiar with, filled with unique homes, and eccentric people, and a beautiful lake. Located about 30 minutes east of Downtown Atlanta, just outside the Perimeter between Dunaire and Stone Mountain, Pine Lake is actually more than a neighborhood - it is DeKalb County's smallest city. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Situated around a beautiful 12 acre lake, Pine Woods was originally conceived in the 1930s as a collection of summer retreat cottages and fishing shacks for affluent Atlantans. Very soon after, weekend campers became year 'round residents, and in 1937, the City of Pine Lake was established. Over the years, Pine Lake's woodsy charm has attracted eco-minded hippies, nationally known artists, creative types, and free thinkers seeking the simple life with easy access to big city amenities.</b></div><br />
<div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Most of the original cottages have been expanded a bit, a few small apartment buildings were added, and newer bungalows and lake homes have have been built, but Pine Lake still feels like summer camp for liberals. Yards are decorated with psychedelically colored lawn ornaments, handmade bird feeders, and "War is Not the Answer" signs. Residents gather on the lake's sandy beach, in the public gazebo, and at the neighborhood clubhouse for pancake breakfasts, ice cream socials, art fairs, organic gardening lessons, and bird watching walks. And, "First Fridays" bring the community together for monthly musical concerts. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>The population of tiny Pine Lake now hovers around 800, and is fairly diverse in terms of ethnicity, race, and socio-economic status, though about 3/4 of the residents are European-American. Gay folks are warmly welcomed in Pine Lake and rainbow flags fly freely all around the neighborhood. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>As an installment of Atlanta Chronicled, I have to admit, Pine Lake was really difficult to capture in photos, and I'm not sure I was able to "get" it. Much of the theme of this project has centered around looking at Metro Atlanta neighborhoods in terms of the texture, reflection, color, and shape of their structures. Pine Lake has some fantastically charming homes, and lots of interesting and whimsical surprises, but this community is more of a <i>feeling</i> than a study in architecture. It feels like a Northern California mountain village placed quietly in Deep Southern woods. It feels like the end of the world and the center of it all. It feels warm and friendly and isolated and insular. I hope I've been able to express just a little of the character of this magical hidden village. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-48204263521176693252010-04-01T21:59:00.000-04:002010-04-20T18:03:57.381-04:00Sweet Auburn<div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>In a previous post, I described Midtown as the heart of Atlanta. And while that's true, Sweet Auburn is most definitely the soul of this wonderful city. After General William Tecumseh Sherman invaded, captured, and burned most of Atlanta to the ground, Union Troops occupied land just outside of downtown Atlanta, and that occupied area became known as Shermantown. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Shermantown's close proximity to the Georgia Railroad, and the connecting road known simply as Boulevard, sparked quick development. By the early 1900s, Shermantown was an officially segregated "Negro" neighborhood, with a thriving African-American community. The African-American civic leader, author, and unofficial "Mayor of Auburn Avenue", John Wesley Dobbs began to call his neighborhood, Sweet Auburn - a reference to the first line of the 1770 poem, "The Deserted Village," by Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith, which starts, "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain," and Fortune Magazine referred to Auburn Avenue as the "richest Negro street in America." </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>In spite of the harsh reality of Jim Crow, Sweet Auburn prospered throughout the first half of the twentieth century, with African-American churches,businesses, and civic organizations lining Auburn Avenue. During the week, entrepreneurs read the African-American newspaper, the "Atlanta Daily World." Jazz greats like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway played the nightclubs on Saturday night and churches, like Big Bethel AME, and Wheat Street Baptist nurtured the African-American spirit on Sunday morning. </b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>The Sweet Auburn churches provided not only a place to worship and socialize, but they became home to the ideas and conversations that gave birth to the great Civil Rights Movement. The Ebenezer Baptist Church , on the corner of Auburn Avenue and Jackson Street, was led by Pastor Martin Luther King, Sr., who became a community leader and activist. His son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement.</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>In 1976, the entire neighborhood was designated a National Historic Landmark, and the following year a memorial tomb was placed, on a reflecting pool, in a plaza just east of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Dr. King's remains were moved from South View Cemetery to the site. In 1981, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change was opened on Auburn Avenue, where Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, worked to carry the message of justice, equality, and peace to future generations. </b><br />
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<b>Like many inner city neighborhoods, the 1970s and 1980s were not the best years in the history of Sweet Auburn, and the area fell into significant disrepair. Buildings were abandoned and street drug dealing and crime were common. This wonderfully historic neighborhood is, unfortunately, still struggling with these issues, though there are visible glimmers of hope all along Auburn Avenue and Edgewood Avenue. There are new restaurants and coffee shops, and the annual Sweet Auburn Festival draws nearly 500,000 folks from all over to enjoy a day of music, entertainment, and African-American history. </b><br />
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<b>Sweet Auburn grew from a small neighborhood born of violently enforced racial segregation, into a symbol of the strength of the human spirit in the face of oppression, degradation, and injustice. This small community, of hard-working sons and daughters of slaves, gave the world a dream, a spirit, and a message of hope, that continues to speak its truth today. </b> <br />
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<b>Little Five Points was originally developed in the early 1900s as a retail center for the surrounding neighborhoods, and was named after the center of Downtown Atlanta, which is known as Five Points. Little Five Points was a bustling main street from the 1930s until the 1960s. By the late '60s, like much of Atlanta, Little Five Points had deteriorated and the neighborhood became known mostly for its vacant storefronts and crime. </b><br />
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<b>Community investment and dedicated neighbors turned the area around, and now, Little Five Points is not only one of the most inspiring, vibrant and walkable neighborhoods in the city, but it stands as one of last thriving epicenters of cool in these all too homogeneous United States.</b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-5412492223773897432010-01-03T00:03:00.000-05:002010-01-03T11:23:04.950-05:00Buckhead<div style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>There are 71 streets in Atlanta that include the word "Peachtree" tucked somewhere in their name. There's Peachtree Way, Peachtree Plaza, Peachtree Creek Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Battle Avenue, Peachtree Drive and Peachtree Walk.</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buckhead, is Atlanta's Beverly Hills - the neighborhood of "old money" mansions, cutting edge skyscrapers, designer shopping, and private celebrity parties. Coming from Miami, Buckhead seems like a mix of Bal Harbour, Brickell, and Coral Gables - stirred, not shaken. There are two major high-end malls, Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza, that anchor the retail district - which has the highest concentration of upscale shops in the country. </span></b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-35537080800973148862009-11-14T00:14:00.000-05:002009-11-22T18:59:40.390-05:00Cabbagetown<div style="color: cyan; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tucked away behind the Oakland Cemetery is the remarkable little neighborhood of Cabbagetown. One of Atlanta's most historic communities, Cabbagetown is now one of the main centers of bohemian life and culture in the city. </span></b><br />
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<b>Like the whole area now known as Atlanta, the area of Castleberry Hill was originally inhabited by the Cherokees and the Creeks. By the 1830s, the American settlers had killed, robbed and forced out the last of the Native Americans, and a man by the name of Daniel Castleberry came to aquire the land. By 1836 a small settlement just north of this area, called Thrasherville, came to be at the end of the railroad line. Thrasherville was renamed Terminus in 1837. In 1843 it was renamed Marthasville, and in 1845, it became known as Atlanta.</b><br />
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<b>During this time, in the 1840s, a thriving "red light district" was established just outside town, to the southwest. The area became known as "Snake Nation," due to the number of snake oil salesman that could be seen selling their wares and frequenting the local drinking establishments. The Snake Nation locals became known by more conservative Atlantans as "the rowdies," and they were even represented politically by the Free and Rowdy Party. In 1850, Leonard C. Simpson, of the Free and Rowdy Party, ran against Jonathan Norcross of the Moral Party, for the seat of mayor. Norcross won the election, and as promised, he implemented a campaign of enforcing public morality, and making sure that the rowdies were relegated to Snake Nation.</b><br />
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<b>After the Civil War, the red light economy was replaced by railroad related businesses and Atlanta's first horse-drawn trolley, and Snake Nation became Castleberry Hill, named after its first American land owner, Daniel Castleberry. By the early 1900s, huge meat-packing facilities and manufacturing companies set up shop in the area, and Castleberry Hill became a predominantly industrial warehouse and manufacturing center.</b><br />
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<b>By the 1950s, Castleberry Hill industries had started to move out to the suburbs, and as warehouses were abandoned the neighborhood fell into steep decline. In the late 1980s, and early 1990s, artists started to move in, drawn by the vast amounts of cheap warehouse space, and many of the buildings were converted to SoHo style lofts.</b><br />
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<b>Today, Castleberry Hill is definitely one of the most cutting edge neighborhoods in Atlanta. It's a neighborhood of unbelievably cool residential loft spaces, and warehouse art galleries. And, a few hip restaurants, cafes and lounges have very recently opened. There's a strong upwardly mobile ,African-American, creative class vibe, but Castleberry Hill is still one of Atlanta's more diverse neighborhoods. You won't find a lot of old folks here, and with loft prices in the $200K to $500K and up range, you won't find a lot of poor people either. But the streets still feel a little sketchy, and the broken glass all over the sidewalks is a reminder not to leave anything of value in the car.</b><br />
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<b>Tony and I took advantage of the "Castleberry Hill Loft Tour," which happened this past weekend. During the tour, loft owners, listing realtors, and art galleries open their warehouse doors to the curious and the nosy - of which we are both. I've included a couple of shots of loft interiors here. I've also continued looking at Atlanta in terms of texture, reflection and the process of decay, reuse and renewal.</b><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-12661473272149652172009-09-12T00:12:00.000-04:002009-11-14T00:41:46.809-05:00Midtown<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #00cccc; font-family: arial;">Located just north of Downtown Atlanta, and just south of Atlanta's third downtown, Buckhead, is the real heart of the city, Midtown. Midtown is a casual mix of old Victorian and American Craftsman-style homes, walkable commercial areas, and of-the-minute office and condo high rises. With the High Museum of Art, the Woodruff Arts Center and the Fox Theatre, Midtown is clearly Atlanta's cultural center, and it's home to Atlanta's version of Central Park - Piedmont Park. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">In the 1870s, Atlanta's wealthier residents were moving north of Downtown, and building beautiful mansions along Peachtree Street. These upper-crust Atlantans enjoyed summer picnics near natural springs that were located where City Hall East is now, on Ponce De Leon Avenue. In the 1880s, an amusement park was built near the springs, and residential development along Ponce De Leon Avenue followed. Midtown grew rapidly, and during a housing shortage in the 1940s, many of the fine mansions were subdivided into rented apartments. As a a result, the neighborhood declined, well into the 1<span style="font-family: arial;">970s, when it became known mostly for prostitution and street drug deals. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">Through its decline and stunning rebirth, Midtown has remained the center of the GLBT community in Atlanta, and there are rainbow flags flying high all over the neighborhood. There are several GLBT shops and bookstores, and the neighborhood is home to more than a dozen gay bars, clubs, and restaurants, and the lair of the always elusive Stimpasaurus Rex. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">T<span style="font-family: arial;">he huge Georgia Tech campus has taken over a significant portion of Midtown, and the urban-ness of the campus reminds me a lot of the University of Pittsburgh. Midtown is also home to much of Atlanta's business community, with Equifax, Earthlink, Invesco and Coca-Cola headquartered here, as well as the significant presence of AT&T, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Wachovia, Turner Broadcasting, and Google. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: arial;">T<span style="font-family: arial;">he Bank of America Plaza, which sits on the Midtown side of the border with Downtown Atlanta, is not just the tallest building in Atlanta - it is the tallest building in the United States outside of New York and Chicago. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Midtown is the most cosmopolitan neighborhood in Atlanta, but it's also one of the most obviously historical. There are forests of strikingly modern highrises just around the corner from the Varsity - a drive-in fast food joint established in 1928, where car-hops still run food out to cars parked in stalls. Like much of Atlanta, I couldn't help but to see Midtown express itself through it's textures and layers and reflections - but in a uniquely Midtown kind of way.</b> </span><br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-50982120335137691222009-08-22T23:56:00.000-04:002009-11-14T00:42:01.819-05:00Decatur<div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #00cccc; font-family: arial;">Though not technically an Atlanta neighborhood, Decatur is a beautiful and quaint community that sits quietly next to the huge sprawling city. Located about 15 minutes east of Downtown Atlanta, Decatur is very impressive in how it has managed to retain its own identity full of small town charm and character. </span></b> <span style="color: #00cccc;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Founded in 1823, it is one of the oldest municipalities in the Atlanta metro region, and was named in honor of Stephen Decatur - a War of 1812 naval hero. Decatur became the county seat of DeKalb County, and despite the fact that DeKalb's two delegates to the Secession Convention of 1861 voted "no" to secession, Decatur became the site of much of the devastating Battle of Atlanta.<br />
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In 1889, the Decatur Female Seminary was founded in Decatur as a place for women to pursue higher education, and in 1906 the seminary became Agnes Scott College. Agnes Scott still stands as one of the South's most important women's liberal arts colleges, and as an integral part of Decatur life. Decatur is also home to the Art Institute of Atlanta and DeVry University, giving downtown Decatur a bit of a college town feel. </span></b> <span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Decatur is really remarkable, not just in its quaintness, but in its citizens' commitment to community and diversity. There is a sense of community on every corner, and there's a real feeling of quiet open-mindedness that's very pleasant.<br />
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Possibly due to, or at least not hurt by, the presence of a women's liberal arts college, Decatur has a very large lesbian population. In fact, Decatur is home to one of the largest lesbian communities in the country. There are a lot of gay men too, and a lot of aging hippie types, and as a result there's no shortage of artists, craftspeople, and yoga teachers. And, Decatur is home to large and growing Ethiopian and Indian communities.<br />
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In exploring Decatur I was drawn, again, to reflection and texture. Whereas, in Atlanta's Oakland neighborhood, the cycle of urban decay and transition and reuse took front and center, Decatur feels more connected to a more constant, steady history. I was also looking at public space, in particular the downtown square and the MARTA station, to try to capture the sense of community that is ever present.</b> <br />
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</div>Cyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793279039656646748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378164614173039633.post-45606980324872076332009-07-27T14:48:00.000-04:002009-08-21T17:23:11.511-04:00Oakland<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oakland is a small slice of a neighborhood, bordered by Downtown Atlanta, Grant Park, Cabbagetown, The Old Fourth Ward, and Sweet Auburn. It also happens to be home for me and Tony.<br /><br />In some ways Oakland seems like more of a crossroads than a real neighborhood. - a crossroads of several of the most dynamic communities in Atlanta, as well as a crossroads of transportation. The neighborhood is bisected by major freight rail lines, and the East-West MARTA line, and bordered by the busy streets of Memorial Drive, Decatur Avenue and Boulevard Street. It's a short walk to Downtown Atlanta, with just a bridge over the I-75 / I-85 downtown connector as the separator, and it's central location has made it one of the prime "up and coming" neighborhoods in the city.<br /><br />The two standout landmarks of the neighborhood are the King Memorial MARTA Station and the historic Oakland Cemetery. The King Memorial Station is a fascinating example of Brutalism-inspired 1970s urban-Utopian architecture, and the Oakland Cemetery is known as one of the great examples of a Victorian garden-style cemetery. "Gone With The Wind" author, Margaret Mitchell is buried at the cemetery, as well as many of Atlanta's founders.<br /><br />The Oakland neighborhood is also home to some slightly less major landmarks - Daddy D'z Bar-B-Que Joynt, Six Feet Under (a restaurant right across the street from the cemetery), Ria's Bluebird Diner, the Standard, Stella, and Tin Lizzy's Cantina.<br /><br />Oakland was, until recently, almost completely commercial. Many buildings stood abandoned and the area became known mainly for its crime rate. Old warehouses and factories have now been re-claimed as residential lofts, and new buildings such as The Pencil Factory Flats, have turned the area into a bonafied Atlanta neighborhood.<br /><br />In my first expedition, I really became intrigued by how much reflection and texture define Atlanta, as opposed to Miami's expression in color and shape. In looking at my new neighborhood, I continued to think about reflection and texture, but I was continuously confronted with notions of movement and transition. I kept coming back to Oakland as a crossroads, a metaphor of transition that can be seen at every level. It's a transportation hub, a place of decay and renewal, and the place that I'm calling home at one of my life's crossroads. 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font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my explorations of my newly adopted home of Atlanta. Each post will focus on a particular Atlanta neighborhood, with some images, a little history, and a few personal observations. So, let's start at the beginning of the beginning...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Atlanta has a fairly unique layout that reflects its own particular history. Part of the uniqueness is that there are at least three "downtowns," or financial centers - Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead.<br /><br />Downtown Atlanta is the oldest part of Atlanta, and is currently home to the State Capitol, CNN center, the Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Park, the World of Coca-Cola, Peachtree Center, Georgia State University, Underground Atlanta, the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Dome and Phillips Arena. Downtown Atlanta is deceptively big, and it has several fairly distinct mini-neighborhoods - Five Points, Fairlie-Poplar, Government Center (also called the South-Central Business District), Centennial Park, Civic Center and the Hotel District. I can assure anyone that the covering all of downtown on foot is a pretty daunting expedition.<br /><br />Atlanta came to be as a city of transportation, and that's most visible in Downtown. I-75 and I-85 merge just as the skyline comes in to view, and create the "downtown connector," creating an incomprehensible mass of highway traffic. The Atlanta subway, MARTA, uses Downtown as its main hub, with the Five Points station being the connector of east-west and north-south MARTA traffic. And, there is a major mass of railroad lines that cut through the south end of Downtown.<br /><br />It's still clear that Downtown Atlanta has seen some rough times. There are pockets that are fairly run-down with little street life, and most of the area could use a little makeover. But, at the same time, it's clear that there is a transformation coming, as people are moving into old buildings that have been converted to urban lofts, and there are signs of new life in the Fairlie-Poplar area, and around Luckie Street, with some new restaurants and lounges leading the way.<br /><br />In comparing Downtown Atlanta with the downtown area of my most recent home, Miami, it struck me how drastically different the two cities are. The architecture and feel of Downtown Miami is about color and shape, whereas with Downtown Atlanta, it's about texture and reflection. 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