Summary

In the New York Times’s review of Atlanta’s renovation, they go over the fear of gentrification, the lack of complete renovation, and for a few paragraphs, go over the concerns that all of this renovation wasn’t great for the people living there. An interesting quote from former Mayor Jackson: “If you’re going to have a neighborhood invasion and get nothing for it, there are going to be protests”(Sack, 1996). 

Did we learn from the Olympics? The academic journal by Kate Diedrick and Christopher A. Le Dantec looks into building development today and how it is connected to the 1996 Olympics. They collected 62 local interviews to build an understanding of how the community views these projects. Large construction projects hurt the environment in the neighborhoods around them and displace residents who lived on the land.