What Happened to Downtown Atlanta?

Downtown Atlanta was once a vibrant city center -- now it's a hollow shell of it's former self. Honestly, it kind of sucks, unless you're here for the touristy things. I grew up always wondering why downtown didn't feel quite right -- in today's video, we find out.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:09 Comparisons
2:14 Suburbanization
3:15 Architecture, Street activation, John Portman
4:36 Safety, Homelessness, and the Olympics
6:30 Downtown today
7:48 Optimism
9:02 Closing thoughts

Primary sources
Low, Setha M. “The Anthropology of Cities: Imagining and Theorizing the City.” Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 25, 1996, pp. 383–409. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2155832. Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.
Free reference: https://archive.org/details/theorizin...

Media
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/ob...
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-...
https://www.artsatl.org/10-years-of-a...
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Music
Sourced from Youtube Audio Library:
Candelabra - LATASHA
Strollin' - TrackTribe
Intellect - Yung Logos
Kirwani - Teental - Aditya Verma, Subir Dev
Hiatus - RAGE
Soothsayer - John Patitucci
El Gavilan - Quincas Moreira

Equipment
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85, iPhone XS
Microphone: MXL 990 (voiceover), Behringer XM8500 (on camera)

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