Elora Raymond and Jesse Zaro Moore trace the development and impact of Single Family Rental Securitization in Atlanta following the 2008 Recession. Read More
In this excerpt from his recent UGA press monograph The Grapevine of the Black South, Thomas Aiello recounts the origins of the Atlanta Daily World and the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. Read More
Josh Humphries and Kendra Taylor of the Office of Housing and Community Development explore how to understand neighborhood change in Atlanta relative to public investment, design goals and demographics. Read More
Elisa Lanari examines the conflicting interpretations of suburban redevelopment in downtown Sandy Springs. Read More
In this excerpt from his University of Georgia Press monograph, Randall L. Patton explores the experiences of African American workers at Lockheed-Georgia in the 1950s and how their frustrations eventually resulted in the creation of a new federal policy for workplace integration in the 1960s. Read More
LeeAnn Lands examines the role that Emmaus House played in anti-poverty activism in late 1960s and early 1970s Atlanta. Read More
Charles Steffen examines the institutional infrastructure of Atlanta’s former Skid Row in the South Downtown Business District and its eventual dismantling. Read More
Watch Ellen Dunham-Jones’ keynote lecture from the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium about the prospects and challenges of retrofitting suburban spaces in metro Atlanta. Read More
Andy Walter analyzes the politics of mapping and baseball in relation to the Braves' move to Cobb County. Read More
Preston Hogue describes how white churches in 1960s–1980s Atlanta drew on racist ideologies and religious values in responding to racial transitions in their neighborhoods. Read More
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was killed by a white police officer, triggering what may have been the largest mass movement in U.S. history with between 15 and 26 million Americans participating, forcing a reexamination of the urban governance strategy known as, "The Atlanta Way." Read More
Max Blau and Todd Michney recount the 1960 bombing of a Black elementary school on English Avenue and explores how it refutes challenge the myth of Atlanta as an oasis from racist violence Read More