What Happened to Downtown Atlanta?

Опубликовано: 19 Июнь 2026
на канале: SUPERBLOCK with Nathan Davenport

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Downtown Atlanta was once a vibrant city center -- now it's a hollow shell of it's former self. Honestly, it kind of sucks, unless you're here for the touristy things. Why doesn't downtown feel quite right -- in today's video, we find out.

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➤ Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:09 Comparisons
2:14 Suburbanization
3:15 Architecture, Street activation, John Portman
4:36 Safety, Homelessness, and the Olympics
6:30 Downtown today
7:48 Optimism
9:02 Closing thoughts

➤ Primary sources
Low, Setha M. “The Anthropology of Cities: Imagining and Theorizing the City.” Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 25, 1996, pp. 383–409. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2155832. Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.
Free reference: https://archive.org/details/theorizin...

➤ Media
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➤ Music
Sourced from Youtube Audio Library:
Candelabra - LATASHA
Strollin' - TrackTribe
Intellect - Yung Logos
Kirwani - Teental - Aditya Verma, Subir Dev
Hiatus - RAGE
Soothsayer - John Patitucci
El Gavilan - Quincas Moreira

➤ Equipment
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85, iPhone XS
Microphone: MXL 990 (voiceover), Behringer XM8500 (on camera)

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