The AJC reported over the weekend that one of the developers planning to buy City Hall East from the city expects the project to have more retail space and fewer condominiums than he originally envisioned. Emory Morsberger, who was the original developer but is now sharing the project with deeper-pocketed Jamestown Properties, notes that the current [...]

Even conservative heavy hitters in the Georgia Legislature are getting fed up with the state Department of Transportation’s failure to produce a balanced transportation system. Maria Saporta reports on what she calls “a pretty amazing resolution … that basically describes the Georgia Department of Transportation as incompetent when it comes to developing anything other than highways, [...]

Atlanta’s one of about 150 cities whose bicycle voyages can now be mapped via Google. Shannon Guymon, product manager for the bicycling option on Google Maps, announced the option was live on the official Google blog earlier this week. The point of mapping especially for cyclists is to highlight routes that are likely to be safer [...]

Georgia lost nearly 17 percent of its construction jobs between January 2009 and last January, according to a data published yesterday by the Associated General Contractors of America. That translates to more than 30,000 people who’ve lost their jobs. At the risk of an out-of-work carpenter going after me with a nail gun, here’s my question: [...]

Fresh off the last year’s raves its work on Manhattan’s High Line linear park on an abandoned elevated railroad, New York’s James Corner Field Operations has been hired to design Atlanta’s Beltline. Beltline officials announced today that James Corner will join with the Atlanta office of Perkins + Will, which happens to employ Beltline visionary Ryan [...]

The work of modernist architect Paul Rudolph, who designed Emory’s Cannon Chapel, is disappearing quickly, Treehugger reports. I didn’t realize that Rudolph — one of the most prominent modernists of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s — was known for his groundbreaking “green” work. But Treehugger offers numerous examples of his use of daylighting, shading and natural [...]

Column by U.S. Rep. John Lewis: Because of its investment in transportation, Georgia was a leader in our region 20 years ago, but today it has fallen behind because it has not advanced a comprehensive statewide and regional transportation plan. Lately, Georgia has not demonstrated that it understands transportation’s potential to create jobs, heighten commercial advantages [...]

Savannah furniture maker Structured Green gets a nice write-up in Treehugger, the popular environmental webzine. Structured Green, based in Savannah, Georgia, is designing and building a variety of home furnishings from a spectrum of low-impact materials such as bamboo, certified sustainable lumber, and woods salvaged from barns and riverbeds. It’s all held together with water-based glues [...]

Gov. Perdue’s proposed $300 million bond plan for transportation would do little to help metro commuters and even less to give Atlantans alternatives to the automobile. According to this morning’s Atlanta Business Chronicle article breaking down, the plan’s mainly about moving freight through Georgia: … the most expensive project on the governor’s list would spend $121 million [...]

Here’s a provocative argument that draws a link between the issue of climate change and sprawling metro areas like Atlanta. In an interview with Grist, prominent environmental editor Alex Steffen argues that environmental groups are largely ignoring a key battle line in the debate over climate change. Cities sit on one side of that divide and [...]