what about the rest of the country?

While this blog will be primarily focused on local Atlanta developments, I think it's important to know what's happening around the nation with cities facing similar dilemmas or cities and communities doing really extraordinary things. This week I'll combine local and national news links, but going forward they'll be in two seperate posts.

National News

• Green tax credits taking a hike - two steps forward, one step back.
• Ticky-Tacky Westlake - fantastic pictures of one of the first planned post-war suburbs. A mid-century extravganza.

Local News

• Charter schools in Decatur? - how or would this affect the disparity in schools across redeveloped neighborhoods? Consider the difference between Decatur City's affluent schools like versus Dekalb County's more mixed bag.
• Are we making the same mistakes again? - can Atlanta break its bad habit of excluding less fortunate neighborhoods from city-wide windfalls of good fortune and good design?