An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy
have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.
Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of
expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades,
central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while
the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent suburbs trying
to push back against this diversity. Exploring the city's past and
future, Red Hot City tracks these racial and economic shifts and the
politics and policies that produced them.
Dan Immergluck documents the trends that are inverting Atlanta's
late-twentieth-century "poor-in-the-core" urban model. New emphasis on
capital-driven growth has excluded low-income people and families of
color from the city's center, pushing them to distant suburbs far from
mass transit, large public hospitals, and other essential services.
Revealing critical lessons for leaders, activists, and residents in
cities around the world, Immergluck considers how planners and
policymakers can reverse recent trends to create more socially equitable
cities.