The ecology aspect of my experience technically happened when I entered the marta station. The Midtown station is just so plantless. I go down there and every time, I feel like I am a thousand miles from plants. The only hint of the existence of vegetable matter is the leaves on track and bits of…

Number Citation APA 1 Johnson, R., Ramsey-White, K., & Fuller, C. H. (2016). Socio-demographic differences in Toxic Release Inventory siting and emissions in metro Atlanta. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(8), 747. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13080747 2 Stonecrest residents stage protest against Metro Green Recycling plant. (2020, August 11). On Common Ground News – 24/7…

Summary This study by Robert I. McDonald, Tanushree Biswas, Cedilla Sachar, Ian Housman, Timothy M. Boucher, Deborah Balk, David Nowak, Erica Spotswood, Charlotte K. Stanley, and Stefan Leyk look at how tree coverage and wealth are correlated in urban areas where tree coverage is a more scarce resource than in rural areas. They use satellite…

Summary The Atlanta Beltline plans to wrap around Atlanta. It would take the path of an abandoned trolly line and turn it into a pedestrian path. This would go through some currently low-income areas. The beltline is trendy and increases the value/prices of property around it. Two of these sources are government documents which show…

Summary Place-Making and Place-Taking: An Analysis of Green Gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This thesis paper by Aimée Oyinlade Okotie-Oyekan is an overview of how improving ecology in low-income communities leads to gentrification. There are many nuances. The paper looks into methods of improving a community’s ecology without driving up the price of homes. It focuses…

Summary This study by Dr. Jason Vargo, Dr. Brian Stone, Dana Habeeb, Dr. Peng Liu, and Dr. Armistead Russell looks at heat exposure in cities by race. The focus on urban heat is because “many large cities are warming at a rate double that of the planet as a whole”(Vargo, et. al). They sought to…

Summary Megacity Mobility Culture published by Springer goes into how roads are laid in megacities. After White flight, some companies set up shop in the city where property was cheaper and roads were abundant. However, many high paid workers had moved to the suburbs. “Mobility in Atlanta suffers from an abundance of vehicles on the…

Summary This is a document from the Georgia Department of Public Health Statistics & Results Across all age groups, Black Georgians suffer the most from asthma hospitalizations. In the Southern part of Atlanta, asthma rates are higher. This lines up with redlining maps. Additionally, they are right next to areas without high Asthma rates. This…

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…

Summary In preparation for the Olympics, the city removed residents and homeless alike through various laws and reconstruction. When it came to laws that sought to remove homeless people, Atlanta was eventually ordered by a federal court to “‘cease and desist’ the pattern and practice of arresting homeless people without probable cause”(Gustafson, 2013) after the…