Planning Metropolitan Atlanta?The Atlanta Regional Commission, 1970-2002.

Regional Planning;Planning History;Social Sciences;Urban, Technological, & Environmental Planning:

Basmajian, Carlton WadeLassiter, Matthew D. ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Regional Planning;    Planning History;    Social Sciences;    Urban, Technological, & Environmental Planning:;   

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【 摘 要 】

Though their history dates back to the middle of the 20th century, public regional planning agencies in the United States frequently are characterized as weak and disorganized.Sprawling development is cited as concrete evidence of the failure of regional planning agencies to develop and implement a coordinated agenda.Atlanta is often mentioned as a prime example of this phenomenon.As a result, regional planning agencies have received comparatively little scholarly attention for their role in metropolitan development.While much of the everyday work these agencies do has been hidden from public view, their work has nevertheless shaped the metropolitan landscape.To support this notion, I asked three questions related to the work of Atlanta’s public regional planning agency, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).First, when and through what channels did ARC coordinate planning and development activity?Second, how did ARC lend support to the processes behind metropolitan decentralization?Third, what role did ARC play in the expansion of federal and state power over local land development decisions?To understand how Atlanta’s regional planning agency operated at this nexus of fractious local, state, and federal politics, we must turn our attention away from mechanical indicators and toward more subtle issues of procedure.Drawing from a body of archival sources, I examine a historical series of events: the conditions surrounding the formation of the planning agency in 1971; the writing of a 1975 regional development plan; the coordination of a regional watershed management process in 1980; the genesis of the 1989 state law that mandated local comprehensive planning; and the pitched battle over air quality and the building of a suburban freeway in 1999.Focusing on the work of the Commission reveals how administrative capacity, consistent state support, and a regionalist legacy influenced which issues would receive attention, how responses to those issues would be crafted, and the character of the development that would result.Examining the work of a single agency over time permits a detailed view of how the regional planning process unfolds and the role that regional planning organizations like ARC have played in building a sprawling nation.