{"144141":{"#nid":"144141","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Beltline \u0022father\u0022 Gravel (MCP, M.Arch 1998) sees positives despite TSPLOST defeat","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe man who dreamed up the Atlanta Beltline is able to see a silver lining in voters\u2019 July 31 defeat of a tax that would have pumped $600 million into the project. \u201cWe started a regionwide discussion about how important transportation is,\u201d says Ryan Gravel. \u201cBefore, we didn\u2019t have that.\u201d As a Georgia Tech graduate student in 1999, Gravel became the first to imagine the Beltline, a proposed 22-mile ring of parks, paths and transit around downtown Atlanta, making it his master\u2019s thesis. Now almost 40, Gravel is an architect with the firm Perkins+Will.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2012-08-03 08:49:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:51","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/print-edition\/2012\/08\/03\/beltlines-father-sees-positives.html","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"},{"id":"1260","name":"CQGRD - Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}