great set of photos,
amd1588 (don't know how we've all missed them until now...)
I wanted to put in a plug for the newly renovated Deepdene Park (the most eastern of the linear parks on Ponce--the only one on the north side of the street). It is really neat -- it's been left with natural vegetation, it has 6 or 7 granite bridges (one really big one) crossing ravines, lots of stepping stones going back and forth across the creek that winds through it... Very intensively "engineered" but in a very rustic way. Because most of it is in a large ravine below street grade, you can walk along the bottom and think you are in the N. Georgia mountains (noise from the traffic the only reminder that you aren't).
I am often underwhelmed with Atlanta's efforts, but they hit this one out of the park (pun intended)!