Mural by: Neka King If you’ve been in downtown Atlanta lately, you might have been dazzled by a cluster of brightly lit digital signage. Don’t be fooled, you’re not actually…
Kennesaw Finds Its Hippest New Greenspace…in the Cemetery
Change is coming to downtown Kennesaw. Amidst a population on the rise, two substantial mixed-use developments are planned that will add restaurants, retail, townhomes, and yes, even a couple more…
Data Dive: Who Are Metro Atlanta’s Renters?
Where do metro Atlanta’s renters live? How old are they? What is their racial make-up, and what is their experience of life in the A-T-L? An in-depth blog post from…
An A-Town Year in Review: 2019
As we close the books on 2019, we at What’s Next ATL thought it’d be a good time to take a look back at some of the top regional issues…
What’s a Lifelong Community? And How Can We Get More of Them?
It seems like a simple concept: Build neighborhoods and places that can accommodate people across all stages of life—from toddlers, to twenty-somethings, to those past retirement. Regional planners call them…
Podcast: Living Small Goes Big
Photo Description: ATL ADU CO recently built Cottage Inman in Inman Park Could that cute little backyard cottage solve housing affordability? Okay, so…no, not by itself. More and more, though, people…
Podcast: How a Community Transforms, Part 2
Whether you call it new urbanism, live-work-play or something else, a certain type of development is sweeping the country right now — and making a big splash right here in…
Podcast: How a Community Transforms, Part 1
How did it come to be that a small city a full 30 miles north of the city of Atlanta set the precedent for so-called “urban” design — the sort…
What Makes GA Tech’s Kendeda the Southeast’s Most Sustainable Building
It’s alive! We’re not talking about Frankenstein, although the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is a marvel of modern science. This “living building,” as it’s called, was constructed to…
Metro ATL Housing Strategy Seeks Solutions to Region’s Affordability Crunch
Anyone who’s recently looked for housing in metro Atlanta knows how hard it can be to find anything that’s affordable. The numbers are stark. Between 2011 and 2017, rents have…
Podcast: Metro Atlanta Time Machine
It’s good to be back! Two modest questions kick off Season 2: What will metro Atlanta look like in 2050? And what do we do now, to make it the…
See Updates to Chattahoochee River Plan and Help Shape its Future
Residents will get another chance to weigh in on proposed plans now taking shape to reimagine a 100-mile public realm along the Chattahoochee River, while hearing about updates on significant…
