Stan Thangaraj on the city and the communities he loves, in an ocean of tragedy.
Category Archive: Atlanta
What is it like to see your city bombed out, like London during the Blitz, yet more or less intact?
When seen simply as a stream of incoming sales data, Atlanta can look like a city rising up or population left behind, depending on your point of view.
Status quos can be insidious. They subsist by creeping into our worlds often without our being aware, because […]
By adopting a fine-grained, street-level perspective, we can see how everyday individuals have helped to shape the history of our city, says historian Marni Davis.
There are perfect songs (depending on one’s taste, perhaps “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Crazy,” or “Paranoid”) and there […]
To take a bibliography of southern history on its face, one could conclude that urban planning never touched […]
Amazon recently announced that Atlanta had made the shortlist of cities that might land the online retail giant’s […]