Atlanta, Georgia City of Atlanta From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta horizon seen from Buckhead, the Fox Theatre, the Georgia State Capitol, Centennial Olympic Park, Millennium Gate, the Canopy Walk, the Georgia Aquarium, The Phoenix statue, and the Midtown horizon From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta horizon seen from Buckhead, the Fox Theatre, the Georgia State Capitol, Centennial Olympic Park, Millennium Gate, the Canopy Walk, the Georgia Aquarium, The Phoenix statue, and the Midtown horizon Flag of Atlanta, Georgia Nickname(s): The City in a Forest, ATL, The A, Hotlanta, The Gate City. (See also Nicknames of Atlanta) Location of the town/city of Atlanta, Georgia City of Atlanta December 29, 1847 Body Atlanta City Council Atlanta is the capital of and the most crowded city in the U.S.
State of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 populace of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta urbane area, home to 5,710,795 citizens and the ninth biggest urbane region in the United States. Atlanta is the governmental center of county of Fulton County, and a small portion of the town/city extends eastward into De - Kalb County.
In 1837, Atlanta was established at the intersection of two barns lines, and the town/city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to turn into a nationwide center of commerce.
In the decades following the Civil Rights Movement, the town/city earned a reputation as "too busy to hate" for the mostly progressive views of its people and leaders compared to other metros/cities in the Deep South. Atlanta attained global prominence, and it became the major transportation core of the Southeastern United States, via highway, barns , and air, with Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. Atlanta rated an "alpha -" world town/city that exerts a momentous impact upon commerce, finance, research, technology, education, media, art, and entertainment. It rates 40th among world metros/cities and 8th in the country with a gross domestic product of $270 billion. Atlanta's economy is considered diverse , with dominant sectors that include logistics, experienced and company services, media operations, and knowledge technology. Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlanta's neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the city's demographics, politics, and culture. Main articles: History of Atlanta and Timeline of Atlanta Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be retitled "Atlantica-Pacifica," which was shortened to "Atlanta". The inhabitants allowed, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29, 1847. By 1860, Atlanta's populace had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the hub of multiple barns s in Atlanta made the town/city a core for the distribution of military supplies.
The region encircling Atlanta was the locale of a several major army battles, culminating with the Battle of Atlanta and a four-month-long siege of the town/city by the Union Army under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood made the decision to retreat from Atlanta, and he ordered the destruction of all enhance buildings and possible assets that could be of use to the Union Army.
On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, and on September 7, Sherman ordered the city's civilian populace to evacuate.
On November 11, 1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Army's March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the city's churches and hospitals. Due to the city's superior rail transit network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's biggest city.
Grady, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper, promoted Atlanta to potential investors as a town/city of the "New South" that would be based upon a undivided economy and less reliant on agriculture.
By 1885, the beginning of the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) and the city's black universities had established Atlanta as a center for higher education.
In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, which thriving nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's evolution to the world. In three decades' time, Atlanta's populace tripled as the town/city limits period to include close-by streetcar suburbs.
In 1915, Leo Frank, a Jewish-American factory superintendent, convicted of murder, was hanged in Marietta by a lynch mob, drawing consideration to antisemitism in the United States. On May 21, 1917, the Great Atlanta Fire finished 1,938 buildings in what is now the Old Fourth Ward, resulting in one fatality and the displacement of 10,000 citizens . On December 15, 1939, Atlanta hosted the premiere of Gone with the Wind, the epic film based on the best-selling novel by Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell.
Atlanta played a vital part in the Allied accomplishment amid World War II due to the city's war-related manufacturing companies, barns network, and military bases, dominant to rapid populace and economic growth.
During the 1960s, Atlanta was a primary organizing center of the Civil Rights Movement, with Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and students from Atlanta's historically black universities and universities playing primary part s in the movement's leadership.
While minimal compared to other cities, Atlanta was not no-charge of ethnic strife. In 1961, the town/city attempted to thwart blockbusting by erecting road barriers in Cascade Heights, countering the accomplishments of civic and company leaders to foster Atlanta as the "city too busy to hate". Desegregation of the enhance sphere came in stages, with enhance transit desegregated by 1959, the restaurant at Rich's department store by 1961, movie theaters by 1963, and enhance schools by 1973. In 1960, caucasians comprised 61.7% of the city's population. By 1970, African Americans were a majority of the city's populace and exercised new-found political influence by electing Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, in 1973.
Under Mayor Jackson's tenure, Atlanta's airport was modernized, solidifying the city's part as a transit center.
The opening of the Georgia World Congress Center in 1976 heralded Atlanta's rise as a convention city. Construction of the city's subway fitness began in 1975, with rail service commencing in 1979. Even with these improvements, Atlanta lost over 100,000 inhabitants between 1970 and 1990, over 20% of its population. Following the announcement, the town/city government undertook a several major assembly projects to advancement Atlanta's parks, sporting venues, and transit infrastructure.
While the games themselves were marred by various organizational inefficiencies as well as the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, the spectacle was a watershed event in Atlanta's history that initiated a fundamental transformation of the town/city in the decade that followed. Suburbanization, a booming economy, and new migrants decreased the city's black percentage from a high of 67% in 1990 to 54% in 2010. From 2000 to 2010, Atlanta attained 22,763 white residents, 5,142 Asian residents, and 3,095 Hispanic residents, while the city's black populace decreased by 31,678. Much of the city's demographic change amid the decade was driven by young, college-educated professionals: from 2000 to 2009, the three-mile radius encircling Downtown Atlanta attained 9,722 inhabitants aged 25 to 34 holding at least a four-year degree, an increase of 61%. Between the mid-1990s and 2010, stimulated by funding from the HOPE VI program, Atlanta completed nearly all of its enhance housing, a total of 17,000 units and about 10% of all housing units in the city. In 2005, the $2.8 billion Belt - Line universal was adopted, with the stated goals of converting a disused 22-mile freight barns loop that surrounds the central town/city into an art-filled multi-use trail and increasing the city's park space by 40%. Atlanta's cultural offerings period amid the 2000s: the High Museum of Art doubled in size; the Alliance Theatre won a Tony Award; and art arcades were established on the once-industrial Westside. Atlanta encompasses 134.0 square miles (347.1 km2), of which 133.2 square miles (344.9 km2) is territory and 0.85 square miles (2.2 km2) is water. The town/city is situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and at 1,050 feet (320 m) above mean sea level, Atlanta has one of the highest elevations among primary cities east of the Mississippi River. Atlanta straddles the Eastern Continental Divide, such that rainwater that falls on the south and east side of the divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while rainwater on the north and west side of the divide flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Atlanta sits up on a ridge south of the Chattahoochee River, which is part of the ACF River Basin.
Main articles: Architecture of Atlanta and Neighborhoods of Atlanta Most of Atlanta was burned amid the Civil War, depleting the town/city of a large stock of its historic architecture.
Yet architecturally, the town/city had never been especially "southern" because Atlanta originated as a barns town, clean water a patrician southern seaport like Savannah or Charleston, many of the city's landmarks could have easily been erected in the Northeast or Midwest. Examples of modernist architecture include the 1,196,240sq.ft Westin Peachtree Plaza (1976), Georgia-Pacific Tower (1982), the State of Georgia Building (1966), and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis (1985).
Many of Atlanta's tallest high-rise buildings were assembled in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with most displaying tapering spires or otherwise ornamented crowns, such as the 1,187,676 sq.ft One Atlantic Center (1987), 191 Peachtree Tower (1991), and the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta (1992).
Also instead of amid the era is Atlanta's tallest high-rise building, the Bank of America Plaza (1992), which, at 1,023 feet (312 m), is the 61st-tallest building in the world and the 9th-tallest building in the United States.
The Bank of America Plaza is the tallest building outside of New York City and Chicago, and was the last building assembled in the United States to be in the top 10 tallest buildings in the world until One World Trade Center was instead of externally in May 2013. The city's embrace of undivided architecture interpreted into an ambivalent approach toward historic preservation, dominant to the destruction of notable architectural landmarks, including the Equitable Building (1892 1971), Terminal Station (1905 1972), and the Carnegie Library (1902 1977).
Atlanta is divided into 242 officially defined neighborhoods. The town/city contains three primary high-rise districts, which form a north-south axis along Peachtree: Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead. Surrounding these high-density districts are leafy, low-density neighborhoods, most of which are dominated by single-family homes. Downtown Atlanta contains the most office space in the metro area, much of it occupied by government entities.
Midtown Atlanta is the city's second-largest company district, including the offices of many of the region's law firms.
Surrounding Atlanta's three high-rise districts are the city's low- and medium-density neighborhoods, where the craftsman bungalow single-family home is dominant. The eastside is marked by historic streetcar suburbs assembled from the 1890s-1930s as havens for the upper middle class.
These neighborhoods, many of which contain their own villages encircled by shaded, architecturally-distinct residentiary streets, include the Victorian Inman Park, Bohemian East Atlanta, and eclectic Old Fourth Ward. On the westside, former warehouses and factories have been converted into housing, retail space, and art arcades, transforming the once-industrial West Midtown into a model neighborhood for smart growth, historic rehabilitation, and infill construction. In southwest Atlanta, neighborhoods closer to downtown originated as streetcar suburbs, including the historic West End, while those farther from downtown retain a postwar suburban layout, including Collier Heights and Cascade Heights, home to much of the city's well-to-do African American population. Northwest Atlanta contains the areas of the town/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, which is one of Atlanta's designated Landmark Historical Neighborhoods.
Gentrification of the city's neighborhoods is one of the more controversial and transformative forces shaping intact Atlanta.
The gentrification of Atlanta has its origins in the 1970s, after many of Atlanta's neighborhoods had undergone the urban decay that affected other primary American metros/cities in the mid-20th century.
When neighborhood opposition successfully inhibited two freeways from being assembled through city's the east side in 1975, the region became the starting point for Atlanta's gentrification.
After Atlanta was awarded the Olympic games in 1990, gentrification period into other parts of the city, stimulated by transit framework improvements undertaken in preparation for the games.
Gentrification was aided by the Atlanta Housing Authority's eradication of the city's enhance housing. Atlanta's Piedmont Park in winter Tornadoes are rare in the town/city itself, but the March 15, 2008 EF2 tornado damaged prominent structures in downtown Atlanta.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Atlanta had a populace of 420,003.
The ethnic makeup and populace of Atlanta was 54.0% Black or African American, 38.4% White, 3.1% Asian and 0.2% Native American.
Atlanta has one of the highest LGBT populations per capita, ranking third among primary American cities, behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle, with 12.8% of the city's total populace identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. 7.3% of Atlantans were born abroad (86th in the US). Map of ethnic distribution in Atlanta, 2010 U.S.
In the 2010 Census, Atlanta was recorded as the nation's fourth-largest majority-black city.
It has long been known as a center of black political power, education, and culture, often called a black mecca. black residents of Atlanta have followed caucasians to newer housing in the suburbs in the early 21st century.
At the same time, the white populace of Atlanta has increased.
In that decade, Atlanta's white populace interval from 31% to 38% of the city's population, an absolute increase of 22,753 citizens , more than triple the increase that occurred between 1990 and 2000. Out of the total populace five years and older, 83.3% spoke only English at home, while 8.8% spoke Spanish, 3.9% another Indo-European language, and 2.8% an Asian language. Atlanta's dialect has traditionally been a variation of Southern American English.
The Chattahoochee River long formed a border between the Coastal Southern and Southern Appalachian dialects. Because of the evolution of corporate command posts in the region, attracting migrants from other areas of the country, by 2003, Atlanta periodical concluded that Atlanta had turn into significantly "de-Southernized." Religion in Atlanta, while historically centered on Protestant Christianity, now involves many faiths as a result of the town/city and metro area's increasingly global population.
Metro Atlanta also has various ethnic or nationwide Christian congregations, including Korean and Indian churches.
With a GDP of $304 billion, the Metro Atlanta economy is the eighth-largest in the nation and 17th-largest in the world.
Over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies conduct company operations in metro Atlanta, and the region hosts offices of over 1,250 multinational corporations. Many corporations are drawn to Atlanta by the city's educated workforce; as of 2014, 45% of grownups 25 or older in the town/city have at least 4-year college degrees, compared to the nationwide average of 28%. Atlanta began as a barns town and logistics has remained a primary component of the city's economy to this day.
Atlanta is an meaningful rail junction and contains primary classification yards for Norfolk Southern and CSX.
Since its assembly in the 1950s, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has served as a key engine of Atlanta's economic growth. Delta Air Lines, the city's biggest employer and the metro area's third largest, operates the world's biggest airline core at Hartsfield-Jackson and has helped make it the world's busiest airport, both in terms of passenger traffic and airplane operations. Partly due to the airport, Atlanta has turn into a core for diplomatic missions; as of 2017, the town/city contains 26 consulates general, the seventh-highest concentration of diplomatic missions in the United States. Ted Turner established the command posts of both the Cable News Network (CNN) and the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in Atlanta.
Cox Enterprises, the country's third-largest cable tv service and the publisher of over a dozen American newspapers, is headquartered in the city. The Weather Channel is headquartered just outside Atlanta in Cobb County.
Information technology a company sector that includes publishing, software development, entertainment and data refining has garnered a larger percentage of Atlanta's economic output.
As of 2013, Atlanta contains the fourth-largest concentration of knowledge technology jobs in the United States, numbering 85,000.
Atlanta rates as the sixth fastest-growing town/city for knowledge technology jobs, with an employment expansion of 4.8% in 2012 and a three-year expansion near 9%, or 16,000 jobs.
Recently, Atlanta has turn into a center for film and tv production, largely due to the Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment Act, which awards qualified productions a transferable income tax credit of 20% of all in-state costs for film and tv investments of $500,000 or more. Film and tv manufacturing facilities in Atlanta include Turner Studios, Pinewood Studios (Pinewood Atlanta), Tyler Perry Studios, Williams Street Productions, and the EUE/Screen Gems soundstages.
Film and tv manufacturing injected $6 billion into Georgia's economy in 2015, with Atlanta garnering most of the projects. Atlanta has attained recognition as a center of manufacturing of horror and zombie-related productions, with Atlanta periodical dubbing the town/city the "Zombie Capital of the World". Compared to other American cities, Atlanta's economy has been disproportionately affected by the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, with the city's economy earning a ranking of 68 among 100 American metros/cities in a September 2014 report due to an elevated unemployment rate, declining real income levels, and a depressed housing market. From 2010 to 2011, Atlanta saw a 0.9% contraction in employment and only a 0.4% rise in income.
Although unemployment had dropped to 7% by late 2014, this was still higher than the nationwide unemployment rate of 5.8% Atlanta's housing market has struggled, with home prices falling by 2.1% in January 2012, reaching levels not seen since 1996.
Compared with a year earlier, the average home price in Atlanta fell 17.3% in February 2012, the biggest annual drop in the history of the index for any city. The collapse in home prices has led some economists to deem Atlanta the worst housing market in the country. Nevertheless, in August 2013, Atlanta appeared on Forbes magazine's list of the Best Places for Business and Careers. Atlanta is a town/city located in the South that has a culture that is no longer strictly Southern.
Who have made the urbane region their home, establishing Atlanta as the cultural and economic core of an increasingly multi-cultural urbane area. Thus, although traditional Southern culture is part of Atlanta's cultural fabric, it is mostly the backdrop to one of the nation's most cosmopolitan cities.
Arts in Atlanta Atlanta is one of several United States metros/cities with permanent, professional, resident companies in all primary performing arts disciplines: opera (Atlanta Opera), ballet (Atlanta Ballet), orchestral music (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), and theater (the Alliance Theatre).
Atlanta's performing arts precinct is concentrated in Midtown Atlanta at the Woodruff Arts Center, which is home to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre.
As a nationwide center for the arts, Atlanta is home to momentous art exhibitions and establishments.
The famous High Museum of Art is arguably the South's dominant art exhibition and among the most-visited art exhibitions in the world. The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), a design exhibition, is the only such exhibition in the Southeast. Contemporary art exhibitions include the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
Institutions of college studies contribute to Atlanta's art scene, with the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta ground providing the city's arts improve with a steady stream of curators, and Emory University's Michael C.
Atlanta has played a primary or contributing part in the evolution of various genres of American music at different points in the city's history.
Beginning as early as the 1920s, Atlanta emerged as a center for nation music, which was brought to the town/city by migrants from Appalachia. During the countercultural 1960s, Atlanta hosted the Atlanta International Pop Festival, with the 1969 festival taking place more than a month before Woodstock and featuring many of the same bands.
The town/city was also a center for Southern modern amid its 1970s heyday: the Allman Brothers Band's hit instrumental "Hot 'Lanta" is an ode to the city, while Lynyrd Skynyrd's famous live rendition of "Free Bird" was recorded at the Fox Theatre in 1976, with lead singer Ronnie Van Zant directing the band to "play it pretty for Atlanta". During the 1980s, Atlanta had an active Punk modern scene that was centered on two of the city's music venues, 688 Club and the Metroplex, and Atlanta famously played host to the Sex Pistols first U.S.
Show, which was performed at the Great Southeastern Music Hall. The 1990s saw the birth of Atlanta hip hop, a subgenre that attained relevance following the success of home-grown duo Out - Kast; however, it was not until the 2000s that Atlanta moved "from the margins to becoming hip-hop's center of gravity, part of a larger shift in hip-hop innovation to the South". Also in the 2000s, Atlanta was recognized by the Brooklyn-based Vice periodical for its indie modern scene, which revolves around the various live music venues found on the city's alternative eastside. Main articles: Tourism in Atlanta, Festivals in Atlanta, List of exhibitions in Atlanta, and Cuisine of Atlanta As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh-most visited town/city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year. Although the most prominent attraction among visitors to Atlanta is the Georgia Aquarium, the world's biggest indoor aquarium, Atlanta's tourism trade is mostly driven by the city's history exhibitions and outside attractions.
Atlanta contains a notable amount of historical exhibitions and sites, including the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his final resting place; the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum, which homes a massive painting and diorama in-the-round, with a rotating central audience platform, depicting the Battle of Atlanta in the Civil War; the World of Coca-Cola, featuring the history of the world-famous soft drink brand and its well-known advertising; the College Football Hall of Fame which honors college football and its athletes; the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, which explores the Civil Rights Movement and its connection to intact human rights movements throughout the world; the Carter Center and Presidential Library, housing U.S.
Atlanta contains various outside attractions. The Atlanta Botanical Garden, adjoining to Piedmont Park, is home to the 600-foot-long (180 m) Kendeda Canopy Walk, a skywalk that allows visitors to tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests from 40-foot-high (12 m).
Zoo Atlanta, positioned in Grant Park, accommodates over 1,300 animals representing more than 220 species.
To home enormous pandas. Festivals highlighting arts and crafts, film, and music, including the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and Music Midtown, in the order given, are also prominent with tourists. Since the turn of the 21st century, Atlanta has emerged as a sophisticated restaurant town. Many restaurants opened in the city's gentrifying neighborhoods have received praise at the nationwide level, including Bocado, Bacchanalia, and Miller Union in West Midtown, Empire State South in Midtown, and Two Urban Licks and Rathbun's on the east side. In 2011, the New York Times characterized Empire State South and Miller Union as reflecting "a new kind of sophisticated Southern sensibility centered on the farm but experienced in the city." Visitors seeking to sample global Atlanta are directed to Buford Highway, the city's global corridor.
There, the million-plus immigrants that make Atlanta home have established various authentic ethnic restaurants representing virtually every nationality on the globe. For traditional Southern fare, one of the city's most famous establishments is The Varsity, a long-lived fast food chain and the world's biggest drive-in restaurant. Mary Mac's Tea Room and Paschal's are more formal destinations for Southern food.
Atlanta is home to experienced franchises for four primary team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association, the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer.
The Braves, who moved to Atlanta in 1966, were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the earliest continually operating experienced sports charter in the United States. The Braves won the World Series in 1995, and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005. The Braves will have a new home in 2017.
Moving from Turner Field to Suntrust Park, which is positioned in the Atlanta Metropolitan region 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland/Galleria, Georgia.
The Atlanta Falcons have played in Atlanta since their inception in 1966.
However, they have been unsuccessful in both of their Super Bowl trips so far, losing to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999 and to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI in 2017. The Atlanta Hawks began in 1946 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, playing in Moline, Illinois.
The team moved to Atlanta in 1968, and they presently play their games in Philips Arena. The Atlanta Dream is the city's Women's National Basketball Association franchise. The National Hockey League (NHL) has had two Atlanta franchises: the Atlanta Flames began play in 1972 before moving to Calgary in 1980, while the Atlanta Thrashers began play in 1999 before moving to Winnipeg in 2011.
The Atlanta Chiefs was the city's experienced soccer team from 1967 to 1972, and the team won a nationwide championship in 1968.
In 1998 another experienced soccer team was formed, the Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League.
In April 2014, Atlanta United FC, was formed as an expansion team to begin play in 2017.
Atlanta has been the host town/city for various international, experienced and collegiate sporting affairs.
In 2001 and 2011, Atlanta hosted the PGA Championship, one of the four primary championships in men's experienced golf, at the Atlanta Athletic Club.
Parks in Atlanta The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in northwestern Atlanta Atlanta's 343 parks, nature preserves, and plant nurseries cover 3,622 acres (14.66 km2), which amounts to only 5.6% of the city's total acreage, compared to the nationwide average of just over 10%. However, 64% of Atlantans live inside a 10-minute walk of a park, a percentage equal to the nationwide average. In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that among the park systems of the 50 most crowded U.S.
Cities, Atlanta's park fitness received a ranking of 31. Piedmont Park, positioned in Midtown, is Atlanta's most iconic green space.
Other notable town/city parks include Centennial Olympic Park, a impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics that forms the centerpiece of the city's tourist district; Woodruff Park, which anchors the ground of Georgia State University; Grant Park, home to Zoo Atlanta; and Chastain Park, which homes an amphitheater used for live music concerts.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden, adjoining to Piedmont Park, contains formal plant nurseries, including a Japanese garden and a rose garden, woodland areas, and a conservatory that includes indoor exhibits of plants from tropical rainforests and deserts.
The Belt - Line, a former rail corridor that forms a 22 mi (35 km) loop around Atlanta's core, has been transformed into a series of parks, connected by a multi-use trail, increasing Atlanta's park space by 40%. Jogging is a prominent small-town sport, and the town/city hosts the Peachtree Road Race, the world's biggest 10 km race, annually on Independence Day. The Georgia Marathon, which begins and ends at Centennial Olympic Park, routes through the city's historic east side neighborhoods. Golf and tennis are prominent in Atlanta, and the town/city contains six enhance golf courses and 182 tennis courts.
Main articles: Government of Atlanta, List of mayors of Atlanta, and Crime in Atlanta Atlanta City Hall Atlanta is governed by a mayor and the Atlanta City Council.
Reed was propel to a second term on November 5, 2013. Every mayor propel since 1973 has been black. In 2001, Shirley Franklin became the first woman to be propel Mayor of Atlanta, and the first black woman to serve as mayor of a primary southern city. Atlanta town/city politics suffered from a notorious reputation for corruption amid the 1990s administration of Mayor Bill Campbell, who was convicted by a federal jury in 2006 on three counts of tax evasion in connection with gambling winnings amid trips he took with town/city contractors. As the state capital, Atlanta is the site of most of Georgia's state government.
Atlanta serves as the county-wide core for many arms of the federal agencycracy, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta also plays an meaningful part in federal judiciary system, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The town/city is served by the Atlanta Police Department, which numbers 2,000 officers and oversaw a 40% decline in the city's crime rate between 2001 and 2009.
Crime is down athwart the country, but Atlanta's enhancement has occurred at more than twice the nationwide rate. Nevertheless, Forbes ranked Atlanta as the sixth most dangerous town/city in the United States in 2012. Main articles: List of universities and universities in urbane Atlanta, Atlanta Public Schools, and List of private schools in Atlanta Due to the more than 30 universities and universities positioned in the city, Atlanta is considered a center for higher education. The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the most prominent enhance universities in Atlanta; it is a research college located in Midtown that has been persistently ranked among the nation's top ten enhance universities for its degree programs in engineering, computing, management, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts.
Georgia State University is a primary enhance research college located in Downtown Atlanta; it is the biggest of the 29 enhance universities and universities in the University System of Georgia and is a momentous contributor to the revitalization of the city's central company district.
Atlanta is home to nationally famous private universities and universities, most prominently Emory University, a dominant liberal arts and research institution that rates among the top 20 schools in the United States and operates Emory Healthcare, the biggest community care fitness in Georgia.
The Atlanta University Center is also positioned in the city; it is the biggest adjoining consortium of historically black colleges, comprising Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Interdenominational Theological Center.
Atlanta contains a ground of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a private art and design college that has proven to be a primary factor in the recent expansion of Atlanta's visual art community.
Fifty-five thousand students are enrolled in 106 schools in Atlanta Public Schools, some of which are directed as charter schools. The precinct has been plagued by a widely publicized cheating scandal that was exposed in 2009.
Atlanta is served by many private schools, including parochial Roman Catholic schools directed by the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
The Atlanta urbane region is served by two enhance tv stations and one enhance airways broadcast.
WGTV is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network and is a PBS member station, while WPBA is owned by Atlanta Public Schools.
Georgia Public Radio is listener-funded and comprises one NPR member station, WABE, a classical music station directed by Atlanta Public Schools.
Atlanta is served by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, its only primary daily journal with wide distribution.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of a 1950 consolidation between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, with staff consolidation occurring in 1982 and separate printed announcement of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ceasing in 2001. Alternative weekly newspapers include Creative Loafing, which has a weekly print circulation of 80,000.
Atlanta periodical is an award-winning, monthly general-interest periodical based in and covering Atlanta.
Concourse B at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport Atlanta's transit infrastructure comprises a complex network that includes a heavy rail rapid transit system, a light rail streetcar loop, a multi-county bus system, Amtrak service via the Crescent, multiple freight train lines, an Interstate Highway System, a several airports, including the world's busiest, and over 45 miles (72 kilometres) of bike paths.
Atlanta has a network of freeways that radiate out from the city, and automobiles are the dominant means of transit in the region. Three primary interstate highways converge in Atlanta: I-20 (east-west), I-75 (northwest-southeast), and I-85 (northeast-southwest).
The latter two combine in the middle of the town/city to form the Downtown Connector (I-75/85), which carries more than 340,000 vehicles per day and is one of the most congested segments of interstate highway in the United States. Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as "the Perimeter" that has come to mark the boundary between "Inside the Perimeter" (ITP), the town/city and close-in suburbs, and "Outside the Perimeter" (OTP), the outer suburbs and exurbs.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) provides enhance transit in the form of buses and heavy rail.
Notwithstanding heavy automotive usage in Atlanta, the city's subway fitness is the eighth busiest in the country. MARTA rail lines connect key destinations, such as the airport, Downtown, Midtown, Buckhead, and Perimeter Center.
As a result, a 2011 Brookings Institution study placed Atlanta 91st of 100 metro areas for transit accessibility. Emory University operates its Cliff shuttle buses with 200,000 boardings per month, while private minibuses supply Buford Highway.
Amtrak, the nationwide rail passenger system, provides service to Atlanta via the Crescent train (New York New Orleans), which stops at Peachtree Station. In 2014, the Atlanta Streetcar opened to the public.
National Historic Site, and Sweet Auburn. The Atlanta Streetcar line is also being period on in the coming years to include a wider range of Atlanta's neighborhoods and meaningful places of interest, with a total of over 50 miles of track in the plan. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest airport as calculated by passenger traffic and airplane traffic. The facility offers air service to over 150 U.S.
Cycling is a burgeoning mode of transit in Atlanta, more than doubling since 2009, when it comprised 1.1% of all commutes (up from 0.3% in 2000). Although Atlanta's lack of bike lanes and hilly topography may deter many inhabitants from cycling, the city's transit plan calls for the assembly of 226 miles (364 kilometres) of bike lanes by 2020, with the Belt - Line helping to achieve this goal. In 2012, Atlanta's first "bike track" was constructed on 10th Street in Midtown.
The two lane bike track runs from Monroe Drive west to Charles Allen Drive, with connections to the Beltline and Piedmont Park. Starting in June 2016, Atlanta received a bike sharing program with 100 bikes in Downtown and Midtown, which period to 500 bikes at 65 stations as of April 2017. For a widespread town/city with the nation's ninth-largest metro area, Atlanta is surprisingly lush with trees magnolias, dogwoods, Southern pines, and magnificent oaks. "" National Geographic magazine, in naming Atlanta a "Place of a Lifetime" Atlanta has a reputation as a "city in a forest" due to an abundance of trees that is rare among primary cities. The city's chief street is titled after a tree, and beyond the Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead company districts, the horizon gives way to a dense canopy of woods that spreads into the suburbs.
The town/city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend amid early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.
The nickname is factually accurate, as the city's tree coverage percentage is at 36%, the highest out of all primary American cities, and above the nationwide average of 27%. Atlanta's tree coverage does not go unnoticed it was the chief reason cited by National Geographic in naming Atlanta a "Place of a Lifetime". A 2001 study found that Atlanta's heavy tree cover declined from 48% in 1974 to 38% in 1996. Community organizations and the town/city government are addressing the problem.
Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization established in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75,000 shade trees in the city, and Atlanta's government has awarded $130,000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees. Atlanta has 17 sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc.
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