Urban Sprawl’s Poster Child Grows Up (Harvard Political Review)

By Quinn Mulholland, Published Feb 28th, 2016 In the 1990s, urban development expert Christopher Leinberger dubbed Atlanta the poster child for urban sprawl, and “the name kind of stuck.” The city’s suburbs were growing at a rapid pace, adding over a million people between 1990 and 2000. With MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority,…