Category: commentary
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Landownership Inequality in Georgia, Past and Present
Across the state today, 1,120,314 acres of agricultural land, or about 3% of the total land mass, are owned by foreign investors who own the land not as a way of sustaining life and livelihood, but as financial assets to be mined for profit. Given that our figures from 1900 are close approximations of the…
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Welcome to Mapping Atlanta
Everything happens somewhere. It just so happens that a lot of different things happen in Atlanta, and a lot of things that happen outside of Atlanta are in some way connected to or derived from things that happened here. Atlanta is one of the most interesting and unique cities in the US, if not the…