{"284101":{"#nid":"284101","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Amanda Rhein (MCRP \u002704) talks TOD in Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019ve paid attention to news out of MARTA the past several weeks, you\u2019ve no doubt heard the phrase \u0022transit-oriented development.\u0022\u0026nbsp;So why is transit-oriented development (TOD) a buzzword now? Mainly it\u0027s a money-making opportunity for MARTA, as private developers will pay long-term leases on MARTA-owned lands. And MARTA desperately needs new revenue streams. In January, MARTA brought on Amanda Rhein, a former managing director at Invest Atlanta, as senior director of transit-oriented development. \u0022As I went through college I realized there was this career called urban planning, so I went straight from undergrad into grad school [at Georgia Tech].\u0026nbsp;I looked at grad schools all across the country, but Atlanta was the most interesting because it really was a laboratory for the problems that urban planners are trying to find solutions to,\u0022 Rhein told Atlanta Magazine when asked how she got into city planning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-03-18 20:23:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:59","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Laura Czyzewski","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.atlantamagazine.com\/agenda\/2014\/03\/13\/modal-citizen-amanda-rhein-martas-transit-oriented-development-maven","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"89411","name":"amanda rhein"},{"id":"4097","name":"real estate"},{"id":"89421","name":"tod"},{"id":"488","name":"transit"},{"id":"940","name":"transit oriented development"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}