Our own Sam Olens is receiving national recognition. The past weekend, Olens was presented the Tom Bradley Leadership Award from the National Association of Regional Councils at its national conference. Olens is chairman of both the Atlanta ...
Don Nicholaisen, former chief accountant of the Securities & Exchange Commission, started off his talk at Atlanta Rotary today by addressing students in the audience. He told them they should feel excited about the future because ...
Atlanta lost two of its great ones this past week — Margaret Munroe Thrower and Don Elliot Heald. I was lucky to have known both of them in different contexts, but mainly I admired both from ...
The executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce heard an outsider’s view Thursday morning of how our region is faring from an economic development perspective. Bob Hess, managing principal of NKF Consulting which helps ...
Irony of ironies. For nine days, new urbanist Andres Duany and his team have been in Atlanta working on ways to design pedestrian-friendly communities that welcome all generations. And on Tuesday, the day of his last presentation, ...
People are loving the Terracotta warriors. Michael Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art, speaking at Tuesday's meeting of Atlanta Kiwanis Club, told the audience that "The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army," might end up ...
Solutions, including new transportation funding, must be found to relieve this region of congestion, says Jim Maran, president of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. Maran, and several of his Gwinnett colleages, met with the staff of ...
New urbanist Andres Duany is not much a fan of public participation in planning. In speaking to metro Atlantans in two forums this past week, Duany made several references to how community involvement in the planning ...
In presenting preliminary plans on five different communities in metro Atlanta on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 14, Andres Duany shared ideas on how to retrofit suburban shopping malls. Duany, ...
Nearly everything that’s wrong with our American society can be blamed on sprawl. At least that’s what Andres Duany, the father of “new urbanism,” believes. Duany is in Atlanta working on a nine-day planning exercise called: “Lifelong ...
Could transportation funding reach a stalemate yet again this year? The politics between all the diverse constituencies at the state could torpedo progress for another year. The state House is favoring ...
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