Urban Blight Meets Victorian Values, Sylvan Dreams

Caught between Atlanta's shimmering downtown and its endless magnolia-laced suburbs is a moat of rusting forges and quarries, neighborhoods with names like Cabbagetown and Peoplestown.

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February 7, 2005, 2:00 PM PST

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

For decades, Atlanta spread across cheap farmland in all directions. But in the past three years, developers have increasingly set their sights on urban blight, post-industrial parcels inside Perimeter Road, in a move that has sparked planners' imaginations, but also concerns that in a city already short on parks, there will soon be nowhere to toss a Frisbee or lounge in the grass

Thanks to William Honachefsky

FULL STORY: Atlanta strings a new emerald necklace

Thursday, January 27, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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