Tag: hexagons
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Absentee Atlanta
The last year has seen plenty of attention from local lawmakers to the problem of large, “out-of-state” landlords who are buying up our city’s and state’s housing. While the primary focus of these actions has actually been on the growth of corporate housing ownership, the language used to discuss these issues shows the close connections…
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City of Cameras
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd ranked Washington, DC and more than four times as many as 3rd ranked Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But no matter how surveilled…
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Atlanta’s Shifting Solar Geographies
In 2019, the City of Atlanta adopted its Clean Energy Atlanta plan, which called for the city to achieve 100% clean energy generation by 2035. While increasing the production of clean and renewable energy is an absolute necessity in the face of global climate change, the city has made minimal tangible progress on this goal…
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Corporate Landlords Redux
Last month, we shared a snapshot of the landscape of large corporate single family landlords across metro Atlanta, showing that just the top ten of these companies own over 30,000 properties here in the five core counties. Since then, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an investigation into these landlords that lends additional credence to the countless…
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Storage Spaces
In a recent piece in The Architectural Review, Marianela D’Aprile examines the significance of one ever-proliferating element of our collective urban landscapes: the self-storage facility. D’Aprile draws a parallel between self storage units and luxury condos, another use of urban space that’s largely devoid of human life, and yet similarly important for the functioning of…