Abundant Housing Atlanta and A Cappella Books present Dan Immergluck at the Auburn Avenue Library - Red Hot City
An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.
Abundant Housing Atlanta, A Cappella Books and the Auburn Avenue Research Library and Museum welcome author and Professor of Urban Studies at Georgia State University, Dan Immergluck, for a discussion of his bestselling book, “Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta.”
Presented in partnership with Community Movement Builders, Housing Justice League, The Guild, Partnership for Southern Equity, Center for Civic Innovation and ThreadATL.
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of "Red Hot City" will be available for purchase at the venue. Register to attend via the link:
About the Book
Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent suburbs trying to push back against this diversity. Exploring the city’s past and future, “Red Hot City” tracks these racial and economic shifts and the politics and policies that produced them.
Dan Immergluck documents the trends that are inverting Atlanta’s late-twentieth-century “poor-in-the-core” urban model. New emphasis on capital-driven growth has excluded low-income people and families of color from the city’s center, pushing them to distant suburbs far from mass transit, large public hospitals, and other essential services. Revealing critical lessons for leaders, activists, and residents in cities around the world, Immergluck considers how planners and policymakers can reverse recent trends to create more socially equitable cities.
About the Author
Dan Immergluck is Professor of Urban Studies at Georgia State University. He has written extensively on housing markets, race, segregation, gentrification, and urban policy.
