WITH enlightened civic leadership and one of the nation's fastest-climbing skylines, Atlanta rode the urban-renewal wave of the '60s with pleasingand well-publicizedresults. But where many other cities have grown disillusioned with their downtown business districtsin spite of all the new civic centers, office buildings, freeways and other signs of progressAtlanta, which in 1970 became 51% black in population, seems determined to use the first round of renewal as the down payment on a second, even bigger round in the '70s. Moreover, the courtly businessmen and politicians who engineered the city's renaissance...
ENTERPRISE: Atlanta's Beat Goes On
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