Givens, Darin. “Questioning Why We Live Where We Live in Atlanta.” Questioning Why We Live Where We Live in Atlanta. Tumblr, 1 Nov. 2015. Web. 02 Feb. 2016.
Darin Givens, Atlanta resident and urbanist researcher, presents his thesis as such: “we are segregated. It’s an actual thing that’s happening”. Givens uses two types of evidence pulled from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the Neighborhood Nexus analysis of U.S Census Bureau data in the form of two pictures.

The first black and white picture in 1981-86 top half shows areas were fifty-percent black people or more/less are located and the bottom showing areas where people received 10 percent or more vs. less received mortgages from banks savings or loans. Just as similarly that these pictures appear are also reflected in the recent 2010 census pictures of people with majority white/black neighborhoods vs. the image of children living in families with high incomes or not, all these pictures appear to be undeniably similar.

This evidence supports the idea that Atlanta as a built environment has been physically segregated and continues to stay that way. I chose this source as it directly shows a parallel with racism and segregation that was present in the past still being present today in our everyday lives. One of the major flaws one could point out is that this person is not an accredited researcher but just a person investigating his surroundings, however this can be described as a flaneur way of investigating the built environment.

With this, the author’s purpose is explained as “why we live where we live in Atlanta”. This source proves very useful in showing Atlanta’s built environment spatial locations as something that influenced by segregation.