June 2012
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lowcountryroads asked: great blog, it's so great that you're so connected and emotionally invested in your neighborhood and Atlanta in general :)
Pre-Construction Photos: Fox Theatre →
decoarchitecture:
Sharing this because it’s rare material — photo and description of cornerstore laying in 1928, description of theater given to Shriners, background on how architecture firm was chosen, etc. All of the images are clickable. Posting for the history buffs.
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An Exploration of Atlanta's Fondness for Facadism... →
Much ado has been made of Georgia Tech’s plans to partially demolish the Crum & Forster building, but it doesn’t seem like the actual term for what they’re planning has entered the discussion. The f-word we’re talking about? Facadism. As you probably deduced, it’s the practice of retaining part of an older building (usually the front) while building behind or around it. Naturally, it’s not...
Anonymous asked: Hi, I'm Eric Gilbert, a professor at Georgia Tech. I love your blog: it's really helped me to get to know the city better. And I'm enjoying your carless adventures. I thought you might be interested in a simple page I put together of neat places near MARTA train stations. It's every place within a half-mile of a station that has at least 4 stars on Yelp. Take the MARTA URL and...
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ATL Urbanist: Dallas & Atlanta share a car-centric... →
atlurbanist:
In a Dallas Morning News piece called What if our real problem is too many cars?, Michael Lindenberger looks at problematic highway-funding and congestion issues in Dallas and comes to a conclusion that sounds familiar to me and others in Atlanta.
He decides that efforts to make it…
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“In the living room of last month’s Atlanta Symphony Associates Decorators’ Show...”
– Betsy Riley, I.D. Lab Mixes Artist Commune with Showroom (via atlantamagazine)
