{"292571":{"#nid":"292571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Atlanta\u0027s BeltLine is bigger and more ambitious than New York\u0027s High Line says Professor Green Leigh","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Atlanta Beltline started out as a Georgia Tech graduate student\u2019s dream back in 1999, it\u2019s become one of the most ambitious urban redevelopment projects in the United States.\u0026nbsp;Dr. Nancy Green Leigh, a professor of regional and city planning at Georgia Tech, says while the Beltline\u2019s concept of turning old railroad tracks into useable pathways isn\u2019t new, the Atlanta Beltline is one of the most wide-ranging urban redesign programs in the country.\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe High Line of New York is often cited but (the Beltline) is much bigger than that and much more ambitious,\u201d said Green Leigh.\u0026nbsp;The projected Atlanta Beltline completion date is 2031. The estimated cost of the redevelopment program is approximately $3 billion.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-04-22 12:47:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:05","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"subtitle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2014\/04\/18\/the-atlanta-beltline-transforming-atlantas-urban-culture","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"471","name":"beltline"},{"id":"92041","name":"gravel"},{"id":"9772","name":"nancey green leigh"}],"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":""}}}