Jeff Morrison, architect, leads free tours of unseen underground Atlanta at random dates. Check out his Facebook page for details:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Unseen-Underground-Walking-Tour/21115854893...
In this video Jeff highlights architect John Portman's influence on Atlanta and reveals a little know original artifact of Atlanta history--the Zero Milepost Marker.
The GDOT is proposing to redevelop an area on this tour, behind Phillips arena, commonly referred to as "The Gulch," for a multimodal transportation terminal. This video is a production of the Office of Envirnomental Services of the Georgia DOT.
The city did not have to be "destroyed" by John Portman -- look at Boston, which suffered as much if not more and now has a much more thriving downtown because so much of what was good about the build environment was NOT destroyed and replaced with faceless, mysonginistic towers. But that's just me; I could be wrong...
dcatransit 2 months ago