Sorry for the lack of activity here lately. There is too much for me to blog about, and no time to write any of it.

I recently walked around Midtown just to take photos, and play around with the manual setting on my camera, and was pleased by the results. Oooh…. pretty pictures!

Meantime, one of the Streetsblog authors recently visited downtown Atlanta and gave this rather accurate assessment:

It wasn’t anything human that felt menacing to me, however. It was the ponderous architecture, the windswept, empty plazas, the planned environment in which nothing is on a human scale and in which no organic human interaction can easily take root. How sad that this is the face Atlanta’s civic leaders have chosen to show to out-of-towners.

Too many people are concerned about availability of parking in the in-town grid. This is the natural result, prime real estate that receives hardly any use at all: