Nathan Skinner

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Built Environment Description 3: Ponce City Market: Politics

Over the past few years, there’s been some debate over wether or not Ponce City Market and its surrounding attractions are successfully gentrifying the area and, if they are in fact gentrifying the area, wether or not it’s actually doing… Continue Reading →

Ponce City Market: Skyline Park

On the rooftop of Ponce City Market sits the Skyline Amusement Park, where you can pay $10 for a day of mini golf, midway games, and beer gardens. From the park, you can get an amazing view of the Atlanta… Continue Reading →

Ponce City Market: Apartments and Offices

The Offices in Ponce City Market have a very homie and comfortable look to them. There are lots of windows and lights which makes for a very open and comforting work space. The apartments at Ponce City Market are the… Continue Reading →

Ponce City Market: Gentrification Central

Ponce City Market sits directly in the middle of a group of gentrification agents like Historic Fourth Ward Park, the BeltLine, and a number of high cost apartments, and because these things are bringing a higher income population into the area,… Continue Reading →

Ponce City Market: Connection to BeltLine

Ponce City Market directly connects to one of the completed portions of the Atlanta BeltLine, and it’s because of this that the market has seen so much growth recently. Thanks to the BeltLine, people can bike or walk over to… Continue Reading →

Ponce City Market: Food Hall

One of the things that makes Ponce City Market such a popular spot for both local Atlantans and tourists is its food hall, which houses a large and diverse collection of local restaurants. The main hall is a large, open… Continue Reading →

Built Environment Analysis

In 1999, the Atlanta BeltLine was first proposed in a graduate thesis by Georgia Tech student Ryan Gravel. The idea was to connect multiple neighborhoods within Atlanta with one long trail that would be built over old Atlanta train rail… Continue Reading →

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Political Advertisement

When I was watching the presidential advertisements for this election, I noticed a lot of interesting things. For one, they weren’t really made to appeal to genders like the kid advertisements were. Instead, they seemed to try to appeal to… Continue Reading →

Election Ballot

Using ballotpedia.org, I found out about all of the different elections that I’ll be able to participate in for the up and coming election. Obviously, I’ll be able to vote for the President of the United States, but I’ll also… Continue Reading →

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