After six-and-a-half years in Atlanta, Tim Keane is moving on to greener pastures – Boise, Idaho. Keane’s final day as the City of Atlanta’s planning commissioner will be Friday, Feb. 18, and his presence in ...
Atlanta’s next Peachtree Street could emerge along the blighted neighborhoods around the former Bowen Homes if a master developer who’s to be selected Wednesday can fulfill a long list of expectations.
By Guest Columnist DAN REUTER, CEO of Reuter Strategy, an urban and regional planning firm Georgia and most states have a history of pandemic influenza planning. President George W. Bush signed the first national Pandemic Influenza ...
Atlanta’s zoning enforcement is poorly managed and should be turned over to the police department. The city’s planning department disagrees, according to an audit submitted Tuesday to the Atlanta City Council.
By Guest Columnists JIM KULSTAD, LORI LELAND-KIRK AND CAROLYN H. RADER, environmental advocate, urban planners and friends of Alycen Whiddon Unsung visionary, landscape architect and urban planner, Alycen Whiddon left a permanent legacy in the urban ...
Atlanta will take a month to reconsider a controversial proposal to boost residential density in traditional neighborhoods. In addition, the plan drew significant challenge Tuesday from two ranking members of Atlanta City Council.
A boom in truck traffic is expected by 2050 in metro Atlanta and North Georgia. Rail cargo also is likely to increase significantly, and with it congestion at grade-level intersections of train tracks and roads.
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner Stop, look and listen. Atlanta’s misguided densification planning and zoning strategy is barreling down the tracks. It has many negatives – ...
By Guest Columnist HEATHER HUBBLE, ULI Atlanta Advisory Board Shaping the Future of the Built Environment for Transformative Impact in Communities Worldwide. This is the mission of the Urban Land Institute, a global nonprofit education and ...
The three women who this summer take office as chairs of three schools at Georgia Tech’s College of Design continue both a tradition of academic excellence and the growing role of women in fields that ...
As Atlanta on Monday takes steps to increase residential density, a proposed development in Northwest Atlanta would create up to 455 dwellings on 36 acres. Supporters contend the 12-unit-per-acre project represents the city’s future in ...
The digital divide is real, but a hybrid online/offline meeting model may bridge it.
Metro Atlanta residents still have time to offer suggestions on the $29 billion transit wish list being assembled by the region’s transit planning agency, the ATL.
Planners with the Atlanta Regional Commission haven’t given up hope that Georgia Tech’s next big real estate development can be intertwined with the Herndon Homes public housing development to create a pleasant community a few ...
By Guest Columnist BRANDON SUTTON, a member of the Hulsey Yard Study Committee 2020 will no doubt be remembered as a time of unprecedented disruption to the lives and businesses of countless people throughout the country, ...
Google has made public a treasure trove of never-before-seen proprietary data that could help decision makers reopen the economy safely in metro Atlanta. Google’s report shows changes in categories of places people visit – whether ...
As the pandemic crisis passes, the new orders of life provide opportunities to improve conditions in terms of sustainability, racial equity in placemaking, and more just development practices. These are among the views expressed by ...
A glimmer of hope is one key component of the 30-year plan for spending $174 billion to improve mobility in metro Atlanta.
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