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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.
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Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City, Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan, Randal Roark
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- 2021
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- Title
- Atlanta's Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Dobbins, Leon S. Eplan, Randal Roark
- Publisher
- History Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN13
- 9781467147248
- Series
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- 3.7 out of 5
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- 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.