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Atlanta as the city in a forest/the metropolis in a forest is definitely a major branding issue.
What is the branding issue? Piedmont cities have high percentage of tree canopy, and anyone who watches Rick fight walkers in the woods with Atlanta’s skyline in the background has some understanding of that fact. Atlanta is one of the most marketed/branded cities in the country, and has been for decades. If every facet of Atlanta isn’t known by every American, that’s ok. It doesn’t mean Atlanta is poorly marketed, it just means people don’t need to know 25 things about a city they don’t live in.
What is the branding issue? Piedmont cities have high percentage of tree canopy, and anyone who watches Rick fight walkers in the woods with Atlanta’s skyline in the background has some understanding of that fact. Atlanta is one of the most marketed/branded cities in the country, and has been for decades. If every facet of Atlanta isn’t known by every American, that’s ok. It doesn’t mean Atlanta is poorly marketed, it just means people don’t need to know 25 things about a city they don’t live in.
I think your point is there are aspects to Atlanta that aren’t fully appreciated by those not from there. My point would be Atlanta has some of the strongest advertising/branding of any city outside the Big 3, and whether it is advertising different aspects than you would doesn’t really change that fact. Hotlanta hasn’t had a lack of branding.
I think your point is there are aspects to Atlanta that aren’t fully appreciated by those not from there. My point would be Atlanta has some of the strongest advertising/branding of any city outside the Big 3, and whether it is advertising different aspects than you would doesn’t really change that fact. Hotlanta hasn’t had a lack of branding.
I think your point is there are aspects to Atlanta that aren’t fully appreciated by those not from there. My point would be Atlanta has some of the strongest advertising/branding of any city outside the Big 3, and whether it is advertising different aspects than you would doesn’t really change that fact. Hotlanta hasn’t had a lack of branding.
There is a list of cities to choose and DISCUSS. Atlanta is not one. I voted my choices and did not include a Florida city. You have a White Sand Coast ..... really no Coastal Florida city ..... needs more branding. It has its shore and beaches to boast of. That needs no boasting.
There is a list of cities to choose and DISCUSS. Atlanta is not one. I voted my choices and did not include a Florida city. You have a White Sand Coast ..... really no Coastal Florida city ..... needs more branding. It has its shore and beaches to boast of. That needs no boasting.
There is a list of cities to choose and DISCUSS. Atlanta is not one. I voted my choices and did not include a Florida city. You have a White Sand Coast ..... really no Coastal Florida city ..... needs more branding. It has its shore and beaches to boast of. That needs no boasting.
The unique, white sand Emerald Coast does not need more/better branding.
Cleveland should cease to exist and Cuyahoga country should become a single city. Call it Ohio City or something like that. Start over as a bigger dot on the map and 10th most populous city in the US. A municipal/county merger could give a much more lean government structure and better services.
Probably, but whether it would produce a reversal of fortune is not as certain.
You might want to check out how the Unified Government (of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas) has worked out. I think Kansas' oldest urbanized county continues to struggle to keep residents even after the consolidation.
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Atlanta as the city in a forest/the metropolis in a forest is definitely a major branding issue.
Others have already told you otherwise, but I'll also chime in by noting that Atlanta began to take off in the Civil Rights era.
In 1960, Atlanta and Birmingham were about equal in size. But "The Pittsburgh of the South" got a black eye reputationally for the brutality with which it greeted civil-rights marchers and other supporters; the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and Bull Connor made "Bombingham" a place to avoid.
During this same time period, Dr. Martin Luther King's hometown began to promote itself as "the city too busy to hate." And it pretty much lived up to that slogan. In the years after the "long hot summers" in the North, African-Americans especially began to flock to Atlanta because of its reputation for racial comity. And that helped Atlanta become the Mecca of the Deep South.
That people don't think of Atlanta as a city in a forest is no more of a problem than people not thinking of Kansas City as hilly, which most of the city and its environs is. Not hilly like Pittsburgh or San Francisco, but not flat like Chicago either, which many do think it is.
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