Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don & Robert - time for a good consultant from Canada, I am an Urban Planner - where's the contract? Hugh On 4-Mar-07, at 11:39 PM, Robert Meier wrote: > Don -- I love your description of how and why Atlanta developed! > Drunken cow paths! Great stuff. Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 9 mishmash, construction, > barbershop, and 21SA vignetting > > >> Robert, >> If you are an intelligent or ambitious person in the South then >> there are >> only a few places to go: greater D.C., Raleigh/Durham, Atlanta, >> Miami, >> Nashville. So, Atlanta goes to almost 5 million but gets caught up >> in the >> green guilt trip and doesn't build the infrastructure that exists >> in the >> Northeast to support the population growth. Also, Atlanta has not >> been >> blessed by any leader with vision as it concerns city planning so >> you get >> random growth that benefits developers with little thought about >> how it all >> fits together. D.C. had a master plan, Dallas has a master plan, >> Atlanta is >> laid out on paths that drunken cows followed two hundred years ago. >> >> Don >> don.dory@gmail.com >> >> On 3/4/07, Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote: >>> >>> Don, >>> >>> My daughter lives in Alpharetta, and I have been down there >>> frequently, >>> but >>> I haven't driven around Atlanta for quite a while. My >>> impression has >>> always been that the whole Atlanta area is growing too fast; >>> that even >>> though I75 is 8 lanes in each direction, it still gets clogged >>> every rush >>> hour, and that suburbs have been built way too far from the >>> city. I have >>> never understood the attraction of Atlanta that has drawn so many >>> people >>> -- >>> is it just jobs? >>> >>> Robert >>>