The combo of suburban sprawl and a compromised rail plan has worked to limit the reach of MARTA rail for Atlanta’s regional residents, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a brighter future for the rail that exists.

See the ThreadATL endorsements for key City Council races for 2025, plus a word about the homestead exemption measure.

It's time to bring the book club back! Here at ThreadATL we talk about good urbanism. This time we'll talk about intentions of good design gone wrong. Our book will be Meet Me By The Fountain by Alexandra Lange.

As if surface-parking spaces weren’t problematic enough, new research finds that parked cars contribute to urban heat islands, exposing pedestrians to even higher levels of heat stress though the “radiative properties” of the materials cars are made of.

Atlanta’s Gulch was a significant intersection of the Western and Atlantic railroad lines. The confluence of railroads determined the form of the city. Currently a development site, It is important to understand and acknowledge how this urban form evolved, how the building use composition changed and its future impacts.

With e-commerce on the rise, a construction boom, and a rapidly growing population, there has never been a greater need or a better time for Atlanta to develop a plan for last-mile freight.

Destroying Atlanta with car dependency was a tremendous blunder, but it is a blunder that can and should be corrected. Atlanta should begin this correction by pedestrianizing Peachtree Street between Third Street and Tenth Street...