It's hard to spend any time in Atlanta and not feel like you're in America's city of the future. I visited to check out the current state of the Beltline, the latest transit goings-on, and all the growing pains of this amazing city.
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Previous CityNerd videos referenced:
- The Twin Cities Freeway Fight: https://youtu.be/iCoKySjY_ug
- City visit Detroit: https://youtu.be/c062tSWt9Vo
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Resources:
- Beltline Transit Study: https://beltline.org/learn/progress-planning/transit/beltline-transit-study/
- University of Richmond redlining resources: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/GA/Atlanta/area_descriptions/D20#loc=15/33.761/-84.3747
- Historic Atlanta aerial imagery: https://atlmaps.org/projects/explore
- Poor Dwyane Wade. https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganmurrell/dwyane-wade-statue-reactions
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Images
- Transportation Map of Atlanta Showing Street Car Trackless Trolley and Bus Lines of the Georgia Power Company, circa 1950s, MARTA Collection, Georgia State University Library
https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/marta/id/2909/
- DC Metro Gallery Place Station By Dikaiosp - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112156082
- Starbucks Center by Flickr user SounderBruce
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sounderbruce/17174120300
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 By Nobel Foundation - Description page (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9719576
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CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)
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