1.6 - Atlanta, USA - An urban area Flashcards
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Atlanta Location
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Capital city of Georgia, United States
2
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Population (1970 to 2013)
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Grown from 2 million to 6 million
* Fastest growing metropolitan city in USA
3
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Causes of migration to Atlanta
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From cities around the Great Lakes and the north-east
* unemployment is high and cost of living is expensive
4
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Beltline
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A road or railway that circles a metropolitan area
5
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Atlanta beltline
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Uses old abandones railway tracks that were built before Atlanta was a city and uses them in a redevopment plan which forms a loop around midtown and downtown Atlanta
* 22 miles long
6
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Actions of development done within the Atlanta Beltline (name 3)
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- 527 hectares of new green space and parks
- 53 km of shared-use paths
- $20 billion of new economic development
- 30,000 new permanent jobs from new businesses
- 8% of city landmass covered in the planning area and 25% of Atlanta’s population
- 5600 new workforce housing units
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Problems caused by growth (name 5 with statistics)
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- Traffic congestion - 50,000km of road and 90% of residents drive to work experiencing 68 hours of delays per year
- Air quality - congestion increased respiratory illnesses like bronchitis
- Water quality and quantity - contaminated drinking water
- Agricultural land loss - expansion caused farmland to be covered in infrastructure
- Loss of green space/ecosystems - between 1982 and 2002, 38% of green space in Atlanta’s city boundary was built on
- Impermeable surfaces - concrate and asphalt has replaced soil and meant that surface water cannot drain away
- Cultural loss - civil war battlefields surrounding the city are under threat from suburban homes
- Socio-economic division - most sprawl is north where white middle-class suburbs have been built, the inner city has had less investments