1.6 - Atlanta, USA - An urban area Flashcards

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Atlanta Location

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Capital city of Georgia, United States

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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

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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

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Beltline

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A road or railway that circles a metropolitan area

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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

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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
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