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STREET ART TOUR
By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
Spruill Center students take in Atlanta displays By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
ATLANTA — ince moving to Virginia Highlands in 1981, Taylor Daly said she has watched the “march “of gentrification” throughout Atlanta. “This city was built on a really strong African American economy,” Daly said, “and we have not honored it.” Daly had just finished the introductory class on street art at the Spruill Center for the Arts, part of a six-week curriculum developed by Brave Nu Ventures. In it, Leigh Elion, an academic who examines street art in the context of urban development, lectured about the rhetoric of the medium as a response to gentrification in Atlanta’s historically Black communities. “Street art is so important because it's still people's voices,” Daly said. “It's people's voices, and I want to be able to listen to it.”
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Dunwoody officials delay final decision on new master plan for city trail system
PHOTOS BY AMBER PERRY/APPEN MEDIA
Top photo: ATL Street Art Tours founder Claudia Hart, center, describes Travis Love’s Coca-Cola mural off Peters Street. Bottom photo: Hart, at right, leads students from the Spruill Center for the Arts past a mural by Faatimah Stevens in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill neighborhood.
DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody officials have chosen to delay their decision on a recent draft of the Dunwoody Trail Master Plan, citing concerns about potential effects on homes, projected costs and which project to begin with. More than two months after a contentious town hall meeting in which angry residents came out to oppose parts of the trail plan, representatives from the nonprofit PATH Foundation offered the Dunwoody City Council updated plans April 24 for how the city might initiate a multi-use trail system. The revised Dunwoody Trail Master Plan proposes building a 68.7-mile, multi-purpose walking and biking trail system, connecting countless Dunwoody neighborhoods, nine city parks, 11 schools, seven shopping centers and two MARTA stations. PATH Foundation officials said the revised draft was developed with a tremendous amount of input from residents and community leaders and represents the opinions of nearly every demographic in Dunwoody. “We had parents and seniors, we had children, we had community leaders come up and say how important
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