City Growth and Gentrification

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Featured Digital Projects

Mapping Atlanta

Taylor Shelton

Mapping Atlanta is a blog dedicated to uncovering Atlanta’s quirks and disparities, all presented through the lens of maps.

Sprawling of Atlanta

Joseph A. Hurley and Katheryn L. Nikolich
Visualizing Metropolitan Area Change, 1940s to Present. Outward regional growth in the form of low density development and decline in the urban core has characterized the region for so long that it has become nearly impossible to imagine the region’s built environment exhibiting anything other than its current, ill-defined form.

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Featured Articles

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Further Reading

  • Georgia Tech, and City of Atlanta. 2015. “Modeling Atlanta’s Growth.” Atlantaga.gov. 2015. https://gis.atlantaga.gov/atlantacitydesign/
    This project is a set of interactive applications that extend the utility of geospatial data and incorporate advanced modeling techniques to create interactive visualizations of different growth scenarios.
  • Meg Messmer. 2022. “Intersection”. https://megmessmer.com/intersection/
    Intersection A dark comedy series about gentrification and the intersecting lives of the people in it. 
  • Allen, F., 1996. Atlanta rising: The invention of an international city 1946-1996. Taylor Trade Publishing.

  • Bayor, R.H., 2000. Atlanta: The historical paradoxThe Atlanta paradox, pp. 42-58.

  • Etienne, Harley, and Barbara Faga, eds. 2017. Planning Atlanta. Routledge.

  • Immergluck, Dan. 2022. Red hot city: Housing, race, and exclusion in twenty-first-century Atlanta. Univ of California Press.

  • Keating, Larry. 2001. Atlanta: Race, class and urban expansion. Temple University Press.

  • Lands, LeeAnn B. 2023. Poor Atlanta: Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development. University of Georgia Press.

  • McMahan, Chalmers Alexander. 2009. The People of Atlanta: A Demographic Study of Georgia’s Capital City. University of Georgia Press.

  • Wheeler, Rhana Gittens. 2024. Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

  • Ambinakudige, Shrinidhi, Domenico Parisi, Giorgio Carlo Cappello, and Aynaz Lotfata. 2017. “Diversity or segregation? A multi-decadal spatial analysis of demographics of Atlanta neighborhoods.” Spatial Demography 5: 123-144.

  • Bullard, Robert D., Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres. 2007. “Confronting transportation sprawl in metro Atlanta.”

  • Dameron, Rebecca J., and Arthur D. Murphy. 1997. “An international city too busy to hate? Social and cultural change in Atlanta: 1970-1995.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development: 43-69.

  • Malugani, Tyler. 2015. “The Business of Forgetting: How Atlanta Became a Future-Oriented City, 1865-1895.”

  • Ward, C., 2023. Urban restructuring in Atlanta: A nexus of race, class, power, and growth. The Review of Black Political Economy, 50(3), pp.251-268.