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What? Dude! Learn city boundaries and look at maps try google maps or something. Sandy Springs and Dunwoody are horizontal neighboring cities, the top end of the Perimeter FWY go through both. Sandy Springs isn’t up the GA 400 from Dunwoody, for one the GA 400 doesn’t even go into Dunwoody but Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Roswell and up.
More than half of the Perimeter center is Sandy Springs dude check the Perimeter center site. The king and Queen towers is Sandy Springs, most highrise of the Perimeter center is Sandy Springs Fulton county, however part of it is in Dunwoody Dekalb county the Perimeter mall and some the high rises is in Dunwooody. About Perimeter CIDs - Perimeter Community Improvement Districts
I already knew that which is why I focused on it. I think the huge key word is TOD (Transit Oriented Development). That is all the DC area is building. Almost every single project is TOD. The south doesn't strive to build cites like Washington DC or New York or Philadelphia. They like cars and highways down there and they design their cities to look like they like cars and highways. They are making a push for TOD in the south but it's mainly in the actual major cities that frankly should have already had it. Suburbs aren't seeing TOD development on a major scale in the south and that is probably due to a lack of transit. I was just pointing this out to you showing how they aren't comparable for the reason's you listed and the changes coming. The DC area mindset is to turn as many suburban area's into urban transit oriented cities. That is not the Atlanta metro area mindset. People in the suburbs of Atlanta don't really ride public transit at all to begin with which probably has an effect on their urban design choices for the suburbs. The DC area is trying to restrict cars in all urban center redevelopments but it's a mindset of the DC area though. Anyway, I was just pointing out the completely different direction to development in the two metro area's.
I bolded the incorrect statements
It’s 2011 dude all major sunbelt cities are focusing on new urbanism. Metro Atlanta is actually used a lot as a model for redevelopment and New urbanism. DC is ahead in tradition urban areas it not ahead in New urbanism over Atlanta. That’s not unique to DC, new urbanism is common in suburbs of sunbelt metros. How sunbelt cities are development and how there developing now are two different things.
Atlanta and other sun built cities “especially” Atlanta are building Transit Oriented Developments across there metro. For one Atlanta lacks freeways compare to it’s sunbelt peers and there not many places where they can even be put. And Marta already goes into Perimeter center, anyways. look at the key from the map in the link below, The metro Atlanta's 2040 is Transit Oriented Development.
I don't know why they put Dunwoody instead of Sandy Springs because Sandy Springs is bigger. Anyway, The orange is Marta as now. The bolded colors are light rail explanation on the ARC transit list. As you can see there's alot of CID along the routes, these are major area they want build up along the corridors. The Green in middle is along the perimeter, the blue is north on the perimeter. Transit summit of Atlanta’s northern suburbs seen as ‘breakthrough moment’ | SaportaReport
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Honestly, the criteria used to compare the two places ( or any NE corridor vs any sunbelt city for that matter), is slanted, and laughable... somebody really has an issue with surface parking lots in the suburbs.... smh.
Okay its just silly you know the Urban Queens comes out in packs.
Since when did Atlanta need to be like DC. And why does every city have to look like a northeastern city?. ANd with DC being so Urban why is the traffic so horrible there its just as bad as Atlanta..
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