Author : Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan & Randal Roark
Release : 2021
Genre : History
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Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City write by Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan & Randal Roark. This book was released on 2021. Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare the city and push it forward. This is a story of how once-struggling Atlanta leveraged the benefits of the Centennial Games to become a city of international prominence. This improbable rise from the ashes is told by three urban planning professionals who were at the center of the story."--Back cover.