Editing Atlanta (section)

==== Neighborhoods ====
[[File:Peachtree St in Midtown.jpg|thumb|A section of [[Peachtree Street]] in Midtown Atlanta]]{{Main|Neighborhoods in Atlanta}}
Atlanta is divided into 242 officially defined [[Neighborhoods of Atlanta|neighborhoods]].<ref name="Atlanta Neighborhoods">{{cite web |title=NPU by Neighborhood |url=https://www.atlantaga.gov/government/departments/city-planning/office-of-zoning-development/neighborhood-planning-unit-npu/npu-by-neighborhood |website=City of Atlanta |access-date=May 15, 2020}}</ref> The city contains three major high-rise districts, which form a north–south axis along [[Peachtree Street|Peachtree]]: [[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]], [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]], and [[Buckhead]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bo/?id=101302 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040602033112/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bo/?id=101302 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 2, 2004 |title=Districts and Zones of Atlanta |publisher=Emporis.com |access-date=June 26, 2007 }}</ref> Surrounding these high-density districts are leafy, low-density neighborhoods, most of which are dominated by single-family homes.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joseph F. Thompson|author2=Robert Isbell|title=Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods|url=https://archive.org/details/atlantacityofnei0000thom|url-access=registration|year=1994|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-87249-979-9}}</ref>

[[Downtown Atlanta|Downtown]] contains the most office space in the metro area, much of it occupied by government entities. Downtown is home to the city's sporting venues and many of its tourist attractions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/06/10/south-downtown-atlanta-redevelopment-projects|title=The Megaprojects that will redefine downtown|last=Wheatley|first=Thomas|date=June 10, 2022|website=Axios Atlanta|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref> [[Midtown Atlanta|Midtown]] is the city's second-largest business district, containing the offices of many of the region's law firms. Midtown is known for its art institutions, cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and dense form.<ref>{{cite news|last=Southerland|first=Randy|title=What do Atlanta's big law firms see in Midtown?|newspaper=Atlanta Business Chronicle|date=November 19, 2004|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2004/11/22/focus10.html|access-date=December 1, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/midtown-before-after-photos-decade-growth-transformed-midtown-atl|title=Before/After: Decade of growth has transformed Midtown Atlanta|last=Green|first=Josh|date=June 9, 2023|website=Urbanize Atlanta|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2023/02/09/midtown-future-development-tech-real-estate.html|title=Midtown Atlanta continues to set pace, has room for more transformation|last=Sams|first=Douglas|date=February 9, 2023|website=BizJournals.com|publisher=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.11alive.com/article/money/business/atlanta-tallest-buildings-rockefeller-midtown-west-peachtree-retail-deck-views-rental/85-b63c72bf-7c8d-4e7b-a9e5-4f0b74c4fc59|title=Midtown's newest high-rise expect to be tallest mixed-use development in city: Developers|last=Richards|first=Makayla|date=July 27, 2023|website=11Alive.com|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2022/02/04/midtown-enjoys-record-growth.html|title=Midtown's allure sparks record growth|last=McKillips|first=Gary|date=February 4, 2022|website=BizJournals.com|publisher=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref> [[Buckhead]], the city's uptown district, is {{convert|8|mi|km|spell=in}} north of Downtown and the city's third-largest business district. The district is marked by an urbanized core along [[Peachtree Street|Peachtree Road]], surrounded by suburban single-family neighborhoods situated among woods and rolling hills.<ref name="nytimes2003">{{cite news|first=David|last=Kirby|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/travel/a-tab-of-two-cities-atlanta-old-and-new.html|title=A Tab of Two Cities: Atlanta, Old And New|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2003|access-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2023/09/11/buckhead-path-to-growth.html|title=You can't say no to growth: After cityhood fails, Buckhead looks to future|last=Sams|first=Douglas|date=September 11, 2023|website=BizJournals.com|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/what-would-buckhead-city-look-like-we-crunched-the-numbers/WRIYJBY2PBCEJFKWTFK2YDWXYA/|title=What would 'Buckhead City' look like? We crunched the numbers|last=Capelouto|first=J.D.|date=April 25, 2021|website=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-atlantas-buckhead-neighborhood-rising-crime-fuels-move-to-secede-11642687201|title=In Atlanta's Buckhead Neighborhood, Rising Crime Fuels Move to Secede|last=McWhirter|first=Cameron|date=January 20, 2022|website=[[Wall Street Journal]]|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref>[[File:Beath Dickey House Exterior 2018.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Beath-Dickey House]] (1890) in [[Inman Park]] neighborhood, 2018]]

Surrounding Atlanta's three high-rise districts are the city's low- and medium-density [[Neighborhoods of Atlanta|neighborhoods]],<ref name="nytimes2003" /> where the [[American Craftsman|craftsman]] [[bungalow]] single-family home is dominant.<ref>[AIA guide to the architecture of Atlanta, edited by Gerald W. Sams, University of Georgia Press, 1993, p. 195]</ref> The [[Eastside (Atlanta)|eastside]] is marked by historic [[streetcar suburbs]], built from the 1890s to the 1930s as havens for the upper middle class. These neighborhoods, many of which contain their own villages encircled by shaded, architecturally distinct residential streets, include the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[Inman Park]], [[Bohemianism|Bohemian]] [[East Atlanta]], and eclectic [[Old Fourth Ward]].<ref name="Gournay">{{cite book |last=Gournay |first=Isabelle |title=AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=1993 |isbn=0820314501}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Greenfield |first=Beth |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0DC1239F93AA15756C0A9639C8B63 |title=Surfacing – East Atlanta – The Signs of Chic Are Emerging |location=Atlanta (Ga); Georgia |work=The New York Times|date=May 29, 2005 |access-date=October 16, 2012}}</ref> On the [[West Midtown|westside]] and along the [[BeltLine]] on the [[Eastside, Atlanta|eastside]], former warehouses and factories have been converted into housing, retail space, and art galleries, transforming the once-industrial areas such as [[West Midtown]] into model neighborhoods for [[smart growth]], historic rehabilitation, and infill construction.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dewan|first=Shaila|url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/travel/22surfacing.html|title=An Upstart Art Scene, on Atlanta's West Side |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=Atlanta (Ga)|date=November 19, 2009|access-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref>

In southwest Atlanta, neighborhoods closer to downtown originated as streetcar suburbs, including the historic [[West End (Atlanta)|West End]], while those farther from downtown retain a postwar suburban layout. These include [[Collier Heights]] and [[Cascade Heights]], historically home to most of the city's [[African-American middle class|upper middle-class African-American population]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta-mayor-race-words-support/IKXiSw5xbFHUYhNC9kyMfM/|title=Atlanta mayor's race: Words of support |newspaper=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=November 1, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2021 |author1=Stirgus, Eric |author2=Torpy, Bill }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YKXsm19fBpkC&pg=PA38|title="The Black Middle Class: Where It Lives"|access-date=October 28, 2014 |date=August 1987  |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/06/27/atlantas-minorities-see-dramatic-rise-in-homeownership/|title=Atlanta's minorities see dramatic rise in homeownership| date= June 27, 2004|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref> Northwest Atlanta contains the areas of the city to west of Marietta Boulevard and to the north of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, including those neighborhoods remote to downtown, such as Riverside, Bolton and Whittier Mill. The latter is one of Atlanta's designated Landmark Historical Neighborhoods. Vine City, though technically Northwest, adjoins the city's Downtown area and has recently been the target of community outreach programs and economic development initiatives.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wheatley |first=Thomas |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-170602-the-prince-and-the-paupers-of-vine |title=Wal-Mart and Prince Charles give Vine City a boost |work=Creative Loafing|date=December 15, 2010 |access-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref>

Gentrification of the city's neighborhoods is one of the more controversial and transformative forces shaping contemporary Atlanta. The [[gentrification of Atlanta]] has its origins in the 1970s, after many of Atlanta's neighborhoods had declined and suffered the urban decay that affected other major American cities in the mid-20th century. When neighborhood opposition successfully prevented two [[Interstate 485 (Georgia)|freeways]] from being built through the city's east side in 1975, the area became the starting point for Atlanta's [[gentrification]]. After Atlanta was awarded the Olympic games in 1990, gentrification expanded into other parts of the city, stimulated by infrastructure improvements undertaken in preparation for the games. New development post-2000 has been aided by the [[Atlanta Housing Authority]]'s eradication of the city's public housing. As noted above, it allowed development of these sites for mixed-income housing, requiring developers to reserve a considerable portion for affordable housing units. It has also provided for other former residents to be given vouchers to gain housing in other areas.<ref name="husock">{{cite web|url=http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_atlanta-public-housing.html |title=Atlanta's Public-Housing Revolution |last=Husock |first=Howard |work=City Journal |date=Autumn 2010|access-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref> Construction of the Beltline has stimulated new and related development along its path.<ref>{{cite news|last=Powers |first=Benjamin |url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/11/putting-the-brakes-on-runaway-gentrification-in-atlanta/545555/ |title=Putting the Brakes on Runaway Gentrification in Atlanta |work=[[CityLab (web magazine)|CityLab]] |date=November 10, 2017 |access-date=September 28, 2018}}</ref>