Atlanta After Property - Sites Catalogue

ATLANTA AFTER PROPERTY SITES CATALOGUE

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01 CABBAGE TOWN 02 BOWEN HOMES 03 STUDIO CITY 04 WEST END 05 PRATT-PULLMAN YARD 06 REYNOLDSTOWN 07 CHATTAHOCHEE RIVER 08 OLD HONOR FARM 09 ENGLISH AVE. 10 AIRPORT LOGISTICS AREA 11 BEAVER SLIDE

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CABBAGE TOWN ATLANTA, GA

Whereas both counter-public and enclave spaces are built upon fluidity and collectivity, spaces within the regime of property are defined by rigid borders and hierarchical ownership. Such spaces seek to assimilate and de-fang oppositionary spaces, abstracting and commodifying revolutionary elements so that they no longer pose a threat. The temporary and collective nature of counterpublic and enclave spaces provides justification, as the lack of concrete ownership paints these spaces as a sort of terra nullius in the eyes of the property-owning class.

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BOWEN HOMES ATLANTA, GA

Bowen Homes, is a public housing project in Atlanta for a low-income African American population. It was the poster child of violent crimes, drug use, and vandalism in public housing projects of Atlanta. The demolition of the housing and the displacement of its tenants is a failure of the regime of property and the system’s lack of support to the community.

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STUDIO CITY ATLANTA, GA

Suspension of disbelief is the intentional avoidance or willingness to stop critical thinking and accept an alternate or impossible truth for the sake of enjoyment.

Narrative film, thrives in this insular environment, in which the perception of reality and fiction is blurred.

The upcoming Studio City in Atlanta is another type of development that embodied an alternate reality of not just its product (films) but also represented an economy built around corporate mass, creating a gated community that negates the reality of its neighborhood.

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WEST END ATLANTA, GA

Urban gentrification has duality.

The new development of a neighborhood improves the quality of life, attracts money, and makes the cityscape fancier. However, the new development of a property has the potential to alter the characters of a neighborhood, which embraces the rich culture and history of the community. West End, one of the most historic neighborhoods in Atlanta, is also one of the most rapidly changing areas in the city in which the local community and movements to keep their unique culture are resisting the new developments in the neighborhood.

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PRATT-PULLMAN YARD “Creative City” ATLANTA, GA

Pratt-Pullman Yard is complicit in the regime of property because of its industrial history, its remediated and historicized present, and its “Creative City” envisioned future.

The evolution of Pratt-Pullman Yard follows the age-old pattern that gentrifies and displaces historically marginalized communities for the sake of profit for the few.

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REYNOLDSTOWN ATLANTA, GA

Reynoldstown is significant in the area of social history and black ethnic heritage. The Neighborhood represents post-Civil War AfricanAmerican settlement patterns and the mid-century phenomenon of “white flight.” Due to the stark shift in demographics and recent forces of gentrification, a Vulnerability Index is established to understand the impact of New Developments and Economies along the BeltLine and Memorial Drive corridor onto Legacy Residents who are mostly working-class, people of color at risk of being displaced.

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CHATTAHOCHEE RIVER ATLANTA, GA Atlanta’s relationship to the Chattahoochee River is reliant on unequal access to its shores.

The regime of property and the value attributed to it has created a northern zone of accumulation and leisure, while the southern half has become a zone of extraction and industry.

The pollution along the river’s edge flows downstream to the detriment of those residents, while the financial gains flow upstream.

This contrasting relationship to the Chattahoochee river reinforces the racial and socio-economic divisions that exist in Atlanta today.

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OLD HONOR FARM “Cop City” ATLANTA, GA

Through Boarderization, regimes of property privatize the land and limit the accessibility of resources.

People with less power lose their rights to determine the future of the land during the process. The imposed physical and implied border reinforces the exploitation and inequities between groups of people.

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ENGLISH AVE. ATLANTA, GA

English Avenue went through many historic changes after it was founded as a middle-class white neighborhood in the late 1890s.

English Avenue never recovered from historic damages due to systemic abandonment, resulting in the vast vacant lots throughout the neighborhood. Despite these difficulties, community-led design efforts aim to make English Avenue a better place to live.

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AIRPORT LOGISTIC AREA ATLANTA, GA

Considered the no. 1 state for logistics and infrastructure, Georgia is home to an expansive and extensive network of distribution and warehousing facilities, each feeding into a localized network of industries, stores and consumer homes. This supply-chain infrastructure continues to flatten, scar and monopolize the landscape (with Walmart as the largest occupier of sq-footage), allowing for seemingly homogeneous big-box architectures to take over.

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BEAVER SLIDE ATLANTA, GA

Beaver Slide is entangled in cycles of dispossession and development – twice already subjected to demolition. Through such, ownership and inhabitants are constantly in change consequently witness to radical evolution in housing typologies from vernacular architectures to seemingly monotonous monoliths.

Situated within the proximities of both institutionally owned lands and contested new developments, including the Mercedes Benz Stadium, the vacant land today awaits yet another developer-driven project.

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