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May 26, 2006
Atlanta: A Surprising Bastion of "New Urban" Living
A blog called Environmental and Urban Economics brings up some good points for consideration when reading this week's NY Times article about the Atlantic Station mixed-use development project in Atlanta, GA:
Below I report an interesting case study of a public/private partnership that appears to have achieved its two goals of greening a big chunk of center city Atlanta and creating urban economic development. The article does not say how much public money was spent on this project so it is impossible to begin to do cost/benefit analysis here. I'm always interested in "demonstration effects". Will politicians from other rundown places such as in Queens, NYC see the Atlanta success story and consider making similar investments? Perhaps they might anticipate the likely gentrification caused by a successful project and be afraid of losing their voting bloc? Would Jane Jacobs oppose this type of "big push" project?
Posted by lumi at May 26, 2006 7:31 AM