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Projects, collections, and data about the metro area produced by Georgia State University faculty, staff, and students working with and within their communities. More ...

Planning Atlanta – A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s

Digital collection of material related to city planning and urban development in Atlanta. The collection consists of city planning maps, city planning publications, demographic data, photographs depicting planning activities, oral histories, and aerial photographs. Much of the Planning Atlanta material was created by the City of Atlanta, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Additionally, items from other agencies and entities, such as the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), are included. Planning Atlanta is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded project and seeks to move beyond the traditional digital library model of simply providing digital equivalents of tangible objects. This city planning focused collection provides free and open access to digitally transformed, dynamic, and engaging content with the goal of enhancing this material for educational and research uses. Many items in the collection have been transformed into digital objects that can be engaged with and manipulated. 

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  • The Elevated City Walking Tour

    This walking tour was inspired by and incorporates much of the Georgia State University Library online exhibit The Elevated City by Associate Dean Bryan Sinclair,...

  • The Phoenix Rises: Atlanta's Olympic Journey

    The September 1990 announcement that Atlanta would host the 1996 Olympics surprised and thrilled many Atlantans. The ’96 Summer Games would mark the 100th anniversary...

  • Mapping Atlanta

    GSU professor Taylor Shelton’s blog exploring all of Atlanta’s oddities and inequalities with maps. Issues covered are fundamentally about geography, about how places are the...

  • The Elevated City

    Atlanta, a new city established by the railroads in the 19th century and transformed by the automobile in the 20th century, was built first for...

  • ATLMaps

    The ATLMaps platform, a collaboration between Georgia State University and Emory University, combines archival maps, geospatial data visualization, and user contributed multimedia location pinpoints to...