Metropolitics

The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta's Cityhood Movement

Coleman Allums & Scott Markley — 2020-03-10T06:00:00Z

In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They argue that the case of Eagle's Landing exemplifies a neoliberal reaction to racial change and represents a critical departure from Atlanta's contemporary suburban secession movements.
In a recent article for the online publication CityLab, Brentin Mock (2018b) gives a critical account of the movement for Eagle's Landing, a proposed city in the suburbs south of Atlanta which he

- Essays / suburbs, secession, white flight, race, race and space, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, cityhood

Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development

Laura Wolf-Powers — 2019-05-28T05:00:00Z

Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers. However, there is evidence that many such policies exacerbate existing patterns of urban inequality. Drawing from work with the Pratt Center for Community Development in New York City, Laura Wolf-Powers urges a four-step approach that centers equity and resource redistribution.
The term “value capture” describes policies intended to “secure societal benefits from increases in land

- Debates / Atlanta, New York, urban planning, urban policy, real estate, inequalities, urban inequality, value capture, Georgia

A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South

Anna Joo Kim — 2016-11-01T06:00:00Z

In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in metropolitan Atlanta outside of the central city, changing the region's politics as well as its demography. While Georgia state legislators debate anti-immigrant measures, Asian and Latino households and businesses array themselves in linear fashion along metro Atlanta's ubiquitous highway corridors, and local politics in Atlanta suburbs like Norcross, Doraville and Clarkston

- From the Field / immigration, United States, immigrant incorporation, Atlanta, Welcoming Cities, Georgia