Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods

Thompson Joseph F. and Isbell Robert

Uitg. U OF south Carolina, hardcover, illustrated


Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods looks at the South's leading metropolis not as the home of a pennant-winning baseball team or as the capital of Georgia or even as the host of the 1996 Olympics but rather as the sum of 300 neighborhoods that at once fracture and unite its residents.

To paint a meaningful por-trait of this "city of neighborhoods," Joseph Thompson's photographs and Robert Isbell's narrative take the reader through twenty-six carefully chosen communities and teil of the people, the celebrations, the economics, the architecture, and the sense of community that have given rise to each one. From the poverty of Reynoldstown to the affluence of Tuxedo Park, Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoodsuses new and vintage photographs, maps, personal recollections, and civic records to document the ancestry and individuality of these unique localities.

Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods praises the city's virtues diversity, tolerante, and opportunity—but it does not overlook its social problems. This volumes celebrates the renaissance of community activism that spread throughout Atlanta in the 1970s and speculates on the future of that revival as citizens seek to preserve Atlanta's neighborhoods in the twenty-first century.