Atlanta has never been an easy city to walk through. Decades of highway construction and suburban growth had isolated many of its inner communities from each other, connected largely by highways meant for automobiles, not pedestrians. That gap lingered in the back of one graduate student's mind in the late 1990s as he investigated a loop of long abandoned freight rail routes surrounding the city's core, corridors that most Atlantans scarcely noticed even when they passed within walking distance of their houses. What began as an academic study would in a decade become one of the biggest urban reconstruction projects in the United States.
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