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  Economic Success Of Megaregions Depends On Infrastructure

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jul 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Atlanta | Tags: jeffrey hill, news, transportation, obama, economy, california, growth, infrastructure, president, jobs, atlanta, china, metro, internet, 2008, democrats, florida, mccain, development, editorial, 1960s, cuts, investment, commerce, france, gas, birmingham, maria saporta | 5

  Maria Saporta’s editorial on economic global competitiveness and megaregions hones in on the most important issue for the future of southeastern U.S. cities - mobility. However, the rest of the world isn’t waiting for experts from the Piedmont-Atlantic megaregion to unite and find direction.

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  Street Life Photo Exhibit: An In-depth Look at 1970s Counterculture

  Calista Condo | Thu, Jul 3rd, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Atlanta | Tags: atlanta, 1960s, photography, museum, danny lyon, high museum, exhibition | 0

  The High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia will be holding a photography exhibit entitled Street Life: American Photographers from the 1960s and 70s until August 10th. Focusing on four American photographers that documented four various aspects of life, the collected work comes together as a broad overview of American culture at that time.

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  Raygun Gothic and Populuxe Culture: The Next American City, Today!

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Jan 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, 1960s, populuxe, raygun gothic, googie, theme building, the jetsons, justin long, station wagon | 0

  You wanna know who lives 20,000 miles below The Jetsons? Communists.

  
  Not really, but it’s a fair guess. Conceptual artists in the Cuban Missile Crisis days had to contribute some sort of vision for the future of humanity. Hiding under drafting tables in a dark Hanna-Barbera sweatbox, grinding out another air raid drill, cursing at Jack Kennedy… heck, it would make anyone want to live in the stratosphere with a talking dog. Since there’s no official backstory to The Jetsons, it leaves…

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  Rent controlled: How Grandma Pays the Blitzkrieg Rent

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Dec 28th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, new york city, 1970s, 1960s, war emergency tenant protection act, metcouncil.net, rent control, cato institute | 4

  It’s every angry teenager’s dream to move to New York City. Watching Annie Hall, listening to the Ramones, buying a cordoruy suit ... it’s all about romance until they pick up a free Apartment shopper’s guide and find out that it costs an average of 2000 dollars to rent a closet with bad wiring and a malfunctioning water heater. What happened to the dream of living shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s undiscovered twenty-somethings? What about all those movies where shaggy-haired poets…

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