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Originally Posted by Klazu

I am currently for few days in Atlanta. So this is what a true car-oriented city looks like. Downtown skyscrapers have empty lots next to them and there are parkades up to 16 floors tall. A 14-lane freeway runs through the city core. There is almost nobody on the sidewalks even during Tuesday midday and after dark there are only homeless people.

I found even Dallas and Houston having more walkable city cores than Atlanta appears to have. Maybe it's a different story in Midtown and Buckhead areas, which I plan on checking tomorrow.

On another note, they do have some brilliant-looking skyscrapers in this town. there must have been some huge boom in the early 90s when most of them are built. Not much since then.

I was also interested to learn how their 73-floor Westin skyscraper had very similar problems to One Wall Centre after a hurricane went through Downtown in 2008. Instead of replacing 500 broken windows with different tone glass, they went onto replace all 6000 of them. Now that's how One Wall Centre should have done as well!

Anyways, interesting trip to the part of US I have never been before.

Thanks for the dispatch from your travels, Klazu. Please, keep them coming if you can.