Author: Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan & Randal Roark
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare the city and push it forward. This is a story of how once-struggling Atlanta leveraged the benefits of the Centennial Games to become a city of international prominence. This improbable rise from the ashes is told by three urban planning professionals who were at the center of the story."--Back cover.
Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City
Author: Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan & Randal Roark
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare the city and push it forward. This is a story of how once-struggling Atlanta leveraged the benefits of the Centennial Games to become a city of international prominence. This improbable rise from the ashes is told by three urban planning professionals who were at the center of the story."--Back cover.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare the city and push it forward. This is a story of how once-struggling Atlanta leveraged the benefits of the Centennial Games to become a city of international prominence. This improbable rise from the ashes is told by three urban planning professionals who were at the center of the story."--Back cover.
Red Hot City
Author: Dan Immergluck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
"A growth-above-all development ethos permeates the Atlanta region and is rooted in the city's twentieth-century expansion. Like some other booming Sunbelt metros, Atlanta has combined a continuing reliance on public-private partnerships and a state and regional planning and policy regime that excessively caters to capital, often at the expense of its poorer residents, who are predominantly Black and Latinx. As the city proper has become a hot commodity in the real estate arena and is no longer majority-Black, the region has inverted the late twentieth-century poor-in-the-core urban model to one where less affluent families face exclusion from the central city and more affluent suburbs and are pushed out to lower-income, sometimes quite distant suburbs, usually farther from mass transit, large public hospitals, and other essential services. At this writing, the Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth-largest in the country and likely to climb into the eighth spot in the not-to-distant future. This book focuses on four key, interconnected themes in the evolution and restructuring of Atlanta in the twenty-first century. The first is the major racial and economic restructuring of the region's residential geography, including the city proper. A second theme of the book is the failure of the City of Atlanta to capture a significant share of a tremendous growth in local land values. A third theme of the book is the critical role of state government in constraining and enabling how development and redevelopment occurs and whether the interests of those most vulnerable to exclusion and displacement are given serious consideration. The final theme of the book, and its key overarching narrative, concerns the political economy of urban change and the presence of inflection points. These are periods during which particularly consequential policy decisions are made that have a disproportionate impact on the trajectories of a place and direct and long-lasting implications for racial and economic exclusion. The book's conclusion ties together many of the lessons from these chapters. It ends with discussing what recent political trends could mean for the development trajectory of, and continued exclusion in, the region. It also calls for avoiding a "market-inevitability" fatalism that suggests that nothing can be done to redirect or alter the sorts of trajectories described in the book. It reminds the reader that the events and consequences described are not simply the result of apolitical, atomistic market forces, but is shaped heavily by institutional actors and processes"--
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
"A growth-above-all development ethos permeates the Atlanta region and is rooted in the city's twentieth-century expansion. Like some other booming Sunbelt metros, Atlanta has combined a continuing reliance on public-private partnerships and a state and regional planning and policy regime that excessively caters to capital, often at the expense of its poorer residents, who are predominantly Black and Latinx. As the city proper has become a hot commodity in the real estate arena and is no longer majority-Black, the region has inverted the late twentieth-century poor-in-the-core urban model to one where less affluent families face exclusion from the central city and more affluent suburbs and are pushed out to lower-income, sometimes quite distant suburbs, usually farther from mass transit, large public hospitals, and other essential services. At this writing, the Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth-largest in the country and likely to climb into the eighth spot in the not-to-distant future. This book focuses on four key, interconnected themes in the evolution and restructuring of Atlanta in the twenty-first century. The first is the major racial and economic restructuring of the region's residential geography, including the city proper. A second theme of the book is the failure of the City of Atlanta to capture a significant share of a tremendous growth in local land values. A third theme of the book is the critical role of state government in constraining and enabling how development and redevelopment occurs and whether the interests of those most vulnerable to exclusion and displacement are given serious consideration. The final theme of the book, and its key overarching narrative, concerns the political economy of urban change and the presence of inflection points. These are periods during which particularly consequential policy decisions are made that have a disproportionate impact on the trajectories of a place and direct and long-lasting implications for racial and economic exclusion. The book's conclusion ties together many of the lessons from these chapters. It ends with discussing what recent political trends could mean for the development trajectory of, and continued exclusion in, the region. It also calls for avoiding a "market-inevitability" fatalism that suggests that nothing can be done to redirect or alter the sorts of trajectories described in the book. It reminds the reader that the events and consequences described are not simply the result of apolitical, atomistic market forces, but is shaped heavily by institutional actors and processes"--
Olympic games : federal government provides significant funding and support : report to congressional requesters
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Centennial Olympic Games
Author: Norman Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863091633
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863091633
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Economic Impact on the State of Georgia of Hosting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games
Author: Jeffreys Matthew Humphreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996
Author: Norman S. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858335186
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858335186
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Official Commemorative Book of the Centennial Olympic Games
Author: David Miller
Publisher: Woodford Publishing
ISBN: 9780942627299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A day-by-day chronicle of the Games of the XXVIth Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 13 to August 4, 1996.
Publisher: Woodford Publishing
ISBN: 9780942627299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A day-by-day chronicle of the Games of the XXVIth Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 13 to August 4, 1996.
Centennial Olympic Games
And They Call Them Games
Author: C. Richard Yarbrough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865547063
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A no-holds-barred view of the 1996 Atlanta, Georgia Centennial Olympic Games from an insider's perspective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865547063
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A no-holds-barred view of the 1996 Atlanta, Georgia Centennial Olympic Games from an insider's perspective.
The Modern Olympics
Author: David C. Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic committee, and attempted to organize an international Olympics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic committee, and attempted to organize an international Olympics.