Download or read book Cityguide Atlanta written by and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2002 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ingenious city guide to Atlanta packages a concise full-color mini guide with a color foldout map. The mini guide contains the top 25 attractions, itineraries, walks, tours, and excursions -- plus capsule reviews of key hotels, restaurants, shops, nightlife, and concise travel facts about getting there and getting around. The full-size color foldout map comes complete with detailed city coverage, neighborhood blowups, public transport, hotels, points of interest, parks, and more. This convenient two-in-one travel resource is perfect for the on-the-go traveler who only needs the highlights of Atlanta.

Download or read book Atlanta Travel Guide written by Daniel Windsor and published by Interactive Media Licensing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta, the capital city of Georgia, is a vibrant metropolis nestled in the southeastern United States. Known for its rich history, diverse culture, and booming economy, Atlanta stands as a beacon of Southern hospitality and modern innovation. From its humble beginnings as a railroad terminus in the 19th century to its pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Atlanta has evolved into a dynamic hub of business, entertainment, and education. The city's skyline is a testament to its growth, with towering skyscrapers like the Bank of America Plaza and the iconic Peachtree Plaza defining its modern landscape. Beyond the urban hustle, Atlanta boasts an abundance of green spaces, including the expansive Piedmont Park and the serene Atlanta Botanical Garden, offering residents and visitors alike a retreat from the bustling city life. Atlanta's cultural tapestry is as diverse as its population, with neighborhoods like Midtown and Buckhead pulsating with art galleries, theaters, and music venues. The city's culinary scene is equally eclectic, featuring Southern comfort food, international cuisines, and innovative eateries helmed by renowned chefs. Sports enthusiasts flock to Atlanta for its passion for athletics, with the city hosting major events such as the 1996 Summer Olympics and serving as home to professional teams like the Atlanta Braves, Falcons, and Hawks. As a center of higher education, Atlanta draws students from around the globe to institutions like Emory University, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse College, contributing to its reputation as a knowledge-driven city. Whether exploring the historic Sweet Auburn district, immersing oneself in the sights and sounds of the Atlanta BeltLine, or experiencing the vibrant nightlife in Virginia-Highland, Atlanta offers something for everyone. With its blend of tradition and innovation, Atlanta continues to captivate and inspire, making it a city unlike any other in the South.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Atlanta written by Janice McDonald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Atlanta is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the Georgia's largest city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Atlanta and its surrounding environs.

Download or read book Love Atlanta written by R. Lee Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secret Atlanta A Guide to the Weird Wonderful and Obscure written by Jonah McDonald and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s really inside Atlanta’s sealed Crypt of Civilization? Where can you experience a midnight costume party or get your hair cut at a museum? And is there really an elephant graveyard in the city? Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and Secret Atlanta is the right book to prove this over and over again. Beyond the standard Atlanta tourist attractions, visitors and natives will find a city full of secrets—in the history, art, culture, nature, and places that are just plain weird. Tour the most hidden spots in the metro area, or see the famous sites through a new lens. You’ll find the answers to common questions, like why there are so many streets named “Peachtree.” Don’t miss Atlanta’s more uncommon quirks too, such as the story behind the clergy parking spaces at one local bar. Whether you’re a lifelong Atlantan or a first-time visitor, local writer Jonah McDonald will help you marvel at Atlanta’s most obscure oddities. His adventures through the city might sound too interesting to be true—but you couldn’t even make this stuff up if you tried.

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Atlanta A Great Destination Explorer s Great Destinations written by Carol Thalimer and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorer's Great Destinations™ puts the "guide" back in "guidebook." "Consistently rated the best guides to the regions covered...Readable, tasteful, appealingly designed. Strong on dining, lodging, culture, and history."—National Geographic Traveler. "A crisp and critical approach for travelers who want to live like locals."—USA Today. Distinctive for their accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the diverse travel guides in our Explorer's Great Destinations series meet the conflicting demands of the modern traveler. They're packed full of up-to-date information to help plan the perfect getaway. And they're compact and light enough to come along for the ride. A tool you'll turn to before, during, and after your trip, these guides include: Chapters on lodging, dining, transportation, history, shopping, recreation, and more! A section packed with practical information, such as lists of banks, hospitals, post offices, laundry mats, numbers for police, fire, and rescue, and other relevant information. Maps of regions and locales. A thorough and expansive travel guide to the diverse activities, lodgings, and eateries that "Hotlanta" has to offer—a popular hub destination that receives more than 20 million visitors each year.

Download or read book Hand Book of the City of Atlanta written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atlanta Insiders Guide written by John McKay and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by local authors with many years of experience in writing about their community, the Insiders' Guide "RM" series provide newcomers, visitors, and business travelers with a native's perspective of the area. Each guide details hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more. Covering more than 60 cities and areas nationwide, the Insiders' Guide "RM" series offer the best local insights on travel and relocation. Features include: -- Light, easier-to-use 6" x 9" size -- Easy-to-read typeface -- Large photos and maps -- Updated interior graphics -- Thumb tabs for quick reference to specific chapters -- More at-a-glance information in every title -- Expanded, comprehensive indexes -- Easy-to-use geographic organization in regional books From traditional to zany, discover Atlanta's allure with the help of longtime locals who know the way to Atlanta's brightest and best spots.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Atlanta written by John McKay and published by Insiders' Guide. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birthplace of Coca-Cola and Gone With the Wind, modern Atlanta is home to CNN headquarters, skyscrapers, amusement parks, science centers, trendsetting shops, and restaurants serving cuisine from all over the globe. Longtime locals guide readers around a city of contrasts.

Download or read book AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta written by Gerald W. Sams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet arches and onion domes of the Fox Theater, from the quiet stateliness of Roswell's antebellum mansions to the art-deco charms of the Varsity grill. Published in conjunction with the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it combines historical, descriptive, and critical commentary with more than 250 photographs and area maps. As the book makes clear, Atlanta has two faces: the "Traditional City," striving to strike a balance between the preservation of a valuable past and the challenge of modernization, and also the "Invisible Metropolis," a decentralized city shaped more by the isolated ventures of private business than by public intervention. Accordingly, the city's architecture reflects a dichotomy between the northern-emulating boosterism that made Atlanta a boom town and the genteel aesthetic more characteristic of its southern locale. The city's recent development continues the trend; as Atlanta's workplaces become increasingly "high-tech," its residential areas remain resolutely traditional. In the book's opening section, Dana White places the different stages of Atlanta's growth--from its beginnings as a railroad town to its recent selection as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics--in their social, cultural, and economic context; Isabelle Gournay then analyzes the major urban and architectural trends from a critical perspective. The main body of the book consists of more than twenty architectural tours organized according to neighborhoods or districts such as Midtown, Druid Hills, West End, Ansley Park, and Buckhead. The buildings described and pictured capture the full range of architectural styles found in the city. Here are the prominent new buildings that have transformed Atlanta's skyline and neighborhoods: Philip John and John Burgee's revivalist IBM Tower, John Portman's taut Westin Peachtree Plaza, and Richard Meier's gleaming, white-paneled High Museum of Art, among others. Here too are landmarks from another era, such as the elegant residences designed in the early twentieth century by Neel Reid and Philip Shutze, two of the first Atlanta-based architects to achieve national prominence. Included as well are the eclectic skyscrapers near Five Points, the postmodern office clusters along Interstate 285, and the Victorian homes of Inman Park. Easy-to-follow area maps complement the descriptive entries and photographs; a bibliography, glossary, and indexes to buildings and architects round out the book. Whether first-time visitors or lifelong residents, readers will find in these pages a wealth of fascinating information about Atlanta's built environment.

Download or read book City Maps Atlanta Georgia USA written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Atlanta Georgia, USA is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Atlanta adventure :)

Download or read book A Marmac Guide to Atlanta written by Linda E. Clopton and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta is much more than thriving commerce. With its long tradition of civic, cultural, and sporting excellence, the city offers a variety of visual and performing arts, year-round professional sports, and exciting nightlife.

Download or read book Atlanta DIY City Guide and Travel Journal written by Younghusband American City Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a quirky city notebook designed to inspire listmakers to create their own city guide and city biography in list form and journal the heck out of their time in the city. It's a do it (all) yourself notebook for independent travelers and thinkers! "Atlanta is a fantastic city! So, why not create your own city guide and keep a travel journal to help make your time there unforgettable, fun, and organized?" - Cormac Younghusband ATLANTA DIY CITY GUIDE AND TRAVEL JOURNAL: CITY NOTEBOOK FOR ATLANTA, GEORGIA is a journal and city guide re-invented for travelers, urban explorers and city locals alike! This notebook is a journal and do-it-yourself city guide that helps you keep all your important information about Atlanta organized and ready for when you need it and where you need it. Use the pages of this American City Notebook to document your adventures, experiences, thoughts, and memories. Have fun making lists of all the highlights and lowlights Atlanta has to offer. This is the perfect place to journal your time in Atlanta! This is the perfect place to write down and organize everything you find fascinating about the city - which is why it's your diy city guide and journal. DIY CITY GUIDE: Inside you will find creative DIY sections like: Getting Started; City Confidential; City Folks; Places to Stay; See & Explore; Eat, Drink & Be Merry; Shopping; Sport, Health and Fitness; Entertaining Stuff To Do; Blacklist Must Miss; Special Lists; City Journal; Rating & Embetterment; and, Notes : Sketches : Maps. TRAVEL JOURNAL: When you are ready to document your adventures in Atlanta, you will find fifty journal pages where you can record key details about the day, weather, locations visited, what happened, thoughts on what happened, notes, and the highlight of the day. Make your time in Atlanta more fun, more organized, more productive and more creative by diving headfirst into your new Atlanta DIY City Guide and Travel Journal ! "Aldous Huxley said 'For every traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.'" To help with that, I created a line of DIY City Guides and Travel Journals where you can create your own city guide and document all you city adventures. Enjoy!" - Cormac Younghusband THERE ARE OVER 250 CITIES IN THE YOUNGHUSBAND AMERICAN CITY NOTEBOOK COLLECTION! VISIT YOUR FAVORITE CITIES! "Find a place in the world you haven't been, and go there. Keep on trucking, my friends!" - Cormac Younghusband, The World's Most Legendary Nomad

Download or read book Official Guide to Atlanta written by Margaret Severance and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living Atlanta written by Clifford M. Kuhn and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the memories of everyday experience, Living Atlanta vividly recreates life in the city during the three decades from World War I through World War II--a period in which a small, regional capital became a center of industry, education, finance, commerce, and travel. This profusely illustrated volume draws on nearly two hundred interviews with Atlanta residents who recall, in their own words, "the way it was"--from segregated streetcars to college fraternity parties, from moonshine peddling to visiting performances by the Metropolitan Opera, from the growth of neighborhoods to religious revivals. The book is based on a celebrated public radio series that was broadcast in 1979-80 and hailed by Studs Terkel as "an important, exciting project--a truly human portrait of a city of people." Living Atlanta presents a diverse array of voices--domestics and businessmen, teachers and factory workers, doctors and ballplayers. There are memories of the city when it wasn't quite a city: "Back in those young days it was country in Atlanta," musician Rosa Lee Carson reflects. "It sure was. Why, you could even raise a cow out there in your yard." There are eyewitness accounts of such major events as the Great Fire of 1917: "The wind blowing that way, it was awful," recalls fire fighter Hugh McDonald. "There'd be a big board on fire, and the wind would carry that board, and it'd hit another house and start right up on that one. And it just kept spreading." There are glimpses of the workday: "It's a real job firing an engine, a darn hard job," says railroad man J. R. Spratlin. "I was using a scoop and there wasn't no eight hour haul then, there was twelve hours, sometimes sixteen." And there are scenes of the city at play: "Baseball was the popular sport," remembers Arthur Leroy Idlett, who grew up in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. "Everybody had teams. And people--you could put some kids out there playing baseball, and before you knew a thing, you got a crowd out there, watching kids play." Organizing the book around such topics as transportation, health and religion, education, leisure, and politics, the authors provide a narrative commentary that places the diverse remembrances in social and historical context. Resurfacing throughout the book as a central theme are the memories of Jim Crow and the peculiarities of black-white relations. Accounts of Klan rallies, job and housing discrimination, and poll taxes are here, along with stories about the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, early black forays into local politics, and the role of the city's black colleges. Martin Luther King, Sr., historian Clarence Bacote, former police chief Herbert Jenkins, educator Benjamin Mays, and sociologist Arthur Raper are among those whose recollections are gathered here, but the majority of the voices are those of ordinary Atlantans, men and women who in these pages relive day-to-day experiences of a half-century ago.

Download or read book Atlanta Travel Guide Georgia USA written by Alex Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta Travel Guide, Georgia, USA. Vacation, Tourism, Sightseeing, Business Environment. The South's so-called capital isn't nicknamed Hotlanta for nothing, y'all. Charismatic and lush, Atlanta is a feverish, easy-on-the-eyes cavalcade of culture, cuisine and Southern hospitality. With more than six million residents in the metro and outlying areas, Atlanta continues to experience explosive growth thanks to domestic transplants and international immigrants alike. Beyond the big-ticket Downtown attractions you will find a constellation of superlative restaurants, a palpable Hollywood influence (Atlanta is a hugely popular film-production center) and iconic African American history. That last point can't be overstated: any nationwide African American intellectual, political and artistic movement you can mention either had its genesis in Atlanta, or found a center of gravity here. Without natural boundaries to control development, it's fair to say Atlanta is more a region than a city. Yet for all its sprawl and suburbanization, there is a lovely urban core covered with trees some 36% of the city to be exact, making it one of the most densely forested cities in the US. Magnificent oaks, Southern pines, dogwoods and magnolias pepper the nation's ninth largest metro area, a refuge for 343 parks, nature preserves, gardens and public spaces. Among the green is the ongoing Atlanta BeltLine, transforming the city's urban core and cutting a cinematic path through the canopy. Martin Luther King Jr, the quintessential figure of the Civil Rights movement and arguably America's greatest leader, was born and raised in Atlanta, the son of a preacher and choir leader. His lineage was significant not only because he followed his father to the pulpit of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, but also because his political speeches rang out with a preacher's inflections. King remains one of the most respected figures of the 20th century and is Atlanta's quintessential African-American hero, his legacy emblazoned across the city's historic Sweet Auburn district, home to the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site. Atlanta is a quirky and cultured metroplex, with world-class museums, theater and arts. The economy is robust, the population is young and creative, and the social scene is refreshingly diverse. Distinct neighborhoods are like friendly small towns, rife with pristinely preserved historic homes and thoroughfares of hip bars, cozy coffee shops and independent shopping. And the food? Be it classic Southern eats such as pecan pie, fried chicken and pimento cheese; innovative, chef-driven New American foodie haunts; or ethnic holes-in-the-wall, Atlanta's dining scene is a culinary juggernaut.

Download or read book A Marmac Guide to Atlanta written by Felton, Carly and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: