Irene Holliman Way examines the role John Portman played in the re-development of downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s and the disparate impacts of his "private urban renewal" efforts. Read More
Videos of presentations by Maurice Hobson, Joycelyn Wilson, and R. Candy Tate’s on key issues in the Black cultural politics of Atlanta from the 1970s to today. Read More
Katie Marages Schank explores the mid-century Atlanta textbook Building Atlanta’s Future and the lessons we might learn from its erasure of African Americans from its representation of the city and its public housing. Read More
Andrew Wasserman interviews Adam Forrester about Archive – his short film on the demolition of the Georgia Archives and Records Building in 2017. Read More
Clarence Stone revisits Regime Politics, his classic analysis of Atlanta's governance, in light of the many changes in Atlanta since its publication in 1989. Read More
Christopher Huff recounts the 1969 police riot in Piedmont Park and explains what it reveals about the politics of late 1960s Atlanta, and especially around the then booming “Hip” community in the city. Read More
Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper discuss the emergence of a new Atlanta art scene in the late 1970s and the central role that women played in it. Read More
Joseph Hurley examines the "war" on dense neighborhoods with mixed residential and commercial land uses in mid-century Atlanta. Read More
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