It's time to bring the book club back! Here at ThreadATL we talk about good urbanism. This time we'll talk about intentions of good design gone wrong. Our book will be Meet Me By The Fountain by Alexandra Lange.

As if surface-parking spaces weren’t problematic enough, new research finds that parked cars contribute to urban heat islands, exposing pedestrians to even higher levels of heat stress though the “radiative properties” of the materials cars are made of.

Atlanta’s Gulch was a significant intersection of the Western and Atlantic railroad lines. The confluence of railroads determined the form of the city. Currently a development site, It is important to understand and acknowledge how this urban form evolved, how the building use composition changed and its future impacts.

With e-commerce on the rise, a construction boom, and a rapidly growing population, there has never been a greater need or a better time for Atlanta to develop a plan for last-mile freight.

Destroying Atlanta with car dependency was a tremendous blunder, but it is a blunder that can and should be corrected. Atlanta should begin this correction by pedestrianizing Peachtree Street between Third Street and Tenth Street...

We must make the entire urbanism of Atlanta—everything from the designs of city streets and developments, to the way they affect our lives—inclusive of everyone. That includes people with mobility needs due to age or physical disability and also people traveling with small children or pushing strollers.