If You Can't Join 'Em, Build 'Em

Metro Atlanta's suburban cities rediscover importance of central gathering places in an effort to slow sprawl to a crawl.

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December 20, 2004, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Snellville, Norcross, Duluth, Lilburn and Sugar Hill are among the communities in various stages of renewing their town centers or, in some cases, manufacturing new ones. Even density is not quite the dirty word it once was, as developers build homes and townhomes near these incipient hubs.

Thanks to Alex Pearlstein

FULL STORY: CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: 'Small-town feeling'

Sunday, December 19, 2004 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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