GET ME REWRITE: 24 years later, Metro Atlanta's sprawl creeps toward Charlotte and Chattanooga

 

Map:  Skyscraper City

That was then:  New York Times, 3/25/1999

(from Retiring Guy's clippings file)

Not so tough.

This is now:  The Neighbor, 8/14/2020

The study area stretched from Atlanta to Raleigh, and the Piedmont is defined as the Southeast’s area from the coastal plains to the east to the Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains to the west, going from Virginia southwest to Alabama. Kolankiewicz said 85% of the Piedmont’s urban sprawl can be attributed to population growth. 

In metro Atlanta, he said he’s “very concerned” about how urban sprawl is decreasing its tree canopy and the amount of different types of undeveloped land. 

“It relates to loss of open space, the loss of rural lands, which consists of natural/wildlife habitat and/or farmland, which can’t be replaced, and it relates to such issues like traffic,” Kolankiewicz said.

Related reading:  Atlanta, 7/25/2014

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