The Atlanta Studies Network is an interdisciplinary group of researchers, students and instructors who study Atlanta issues, history and culture, and sponsor meetings, publications and presentations. It holds an annual symposium plus informal meetups. All who are interested in Atlanta are welcome.

Atlanta Civic Circle is a nonprofit news organization that promises to focus on issues important to the Atlanta area. It is starting with housing affordability and democracy. Why should urbanists be interested? Because ACC’s aim is to “build a better educated, more involved” readers. In other words, not just citizens who know what is happening,…

One thing we’ve learned in our reading is how important it is to measure problems and solutions. Neighborhood Nexus may be the single best source of data about issues facing the Atlanta area. It has hundreds of community indicators from a multitude of sources, down to the neighborhood level. The website and its data are…

It’s important that urbanists know what has worked in Urban Atlanta in the past. For more than 20 years, one of the region’s most influential forces in creating lively, walkable places has been the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Livable Centers Initiative. To learn how LCI has quietly shaped many of our most loved downtowns, commercial areas…