{"342301":{"#nid":"342301","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Atlanta city councilmember Archibong teams with SCaRP studio to redevelop Memorial Drive","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe street that stretches from downtown Atlanta to Stone Mountain may get a new look. Atlanta City Council member Natalyn Archibong is leading the effort to upgrade Memorial Drive. An East Atlanta resident, Archibong says she\u2019s witnessed a renaissance in her neighborhood and that Memorial Drive is ready for its own. \u201cIt\u2019s one building, it\u2019s one parcel, and then all of a sudden there\u2019s this critical mass of energy that becomes electric and people want to get on board,\u201d says Archibong. \u201cI think Memorial Drive is at that tipping point.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo what would a new Memorial Drive look like? That\u2019s what Archibong has asked Georgia Tech Professor Mike Dobbins and his students to figure out. The students are designing a plan to redevelop the street which looks at sidewalks, intersections, green space and building lots. Dobbins is the former Planning Commissioner for the city of Atlanta. He says the challenge is that streets that we use the most, like Memorial Drive and Northside Drive, often look and functions the worst. \u201cWhere we travel the most should look the best,\u201d says Dobbins. \u0026nbsp;\u201cThe access to the goods and services and retail, office, and residential should be grand and gracious. It\u2019s a public realm, we own the streets.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2014-11-06 09:27:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 benefits","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/m.wabe.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net\/?utm_referrer=#mobile\/65722","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11581","name":"City Hall"},{"id":"53221","name":"dobbins"},{"id":"102621","name":"memorial drive"},{"id":"108821","name":"plannign studio"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"85191","name":"west side"}],"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":""}}}