{"409661":{"#nid":"409661","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"SCaRP lecturer Bruce Gunter wants Atlanta to adopt \u2018equitable\u2019 transit oriented development","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECompeting statistics support a contradictory narrative of encouraging progress and a dispiriting decline about metropolitan Atlanta by vividly illustrating a widening gap between those who have and those who do not, paralleling nationwide trends. Counterbalancing those numbers are increases in population, jobs and property prices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill Atlanta confronts more dubious measures that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elead the nation\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the suburbanization of poverty, the lack of income mobility, and by most measures, income inequality. These trends are related. This infrastructural legacy is not only a threat to our economic prosperity, but it is wreaking havoc with much of our suburbs today, as a real estate investment tide is pouring into \u201cwalkable\u201d nodes in the \u201cfavored quarter\u201d stretching from Midtown to Alpharetta while receding rapidly from suburban areas cut off from economic activity and transportation choices.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-06-02 13:53:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:31","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"maritime","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/lets-adopt-a-new-grand-bargain-for-atlanta-equitable-transit-oriented-development\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5027","name":"city planning"},{"id":"4743","name":"class"},{"id":"127731","name":"equility"},{"id":"127721","name":"gunter"},{"id":"99601","name":"inequality"},{"id":"3807","name":"lecturer"},{"id":"1841","name":"race"},{"id":"127741","name":"walkable communtiies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}