Tag: proportional symbol
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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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Food Halls For Who?
It feels like every week there’s a new food hall concept being opened or announced somewhere across metro Atlanta. Sometimes, a new food hall opens, then gets closed down within a couple months, then reopens again under new management less than a year later. This flurry of food hall openings in recent years has given…
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Housing Atlanta’s Public
Atlanta sits at the center of the history of public housing in America. We were home to the country’s first-ever federally-funded public housing complex, Techwood Homes, in 1936. A little over half a century later, Atlanta had the 5th largest public housing program of any city in the country, with a total of 45 different…
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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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Atlanta’s Corporate Landlords
For the last decade, the Atlanta metro has been ground zero for corporate investors buying up single-family homes to turn into rental properties. Studies have consistently shown that more so than any other single metropolitan area across the country, these firms have focused on Atlanta and its suburban fringes, leading Dan Immergluck to label Atlanta…
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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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Absentee Exploitation
Over the past week, the AJC has been running an excellent multi-part investigation of the housing conditions at some of Atlanta’s most notoriously dilapidated complexes, broadening out from the case of the now-condemned Forest Cove Apartments. While the whole situation is infuriating, I was particularly taken with the second part of the series investigating the…
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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…
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Peach Streets
There are approximately 217 total miles of Peach Streets across the state of Georgia. But these Peach Streets aren’t evenly distributed across all 159 of Georgia’s counties.