A In 1997 drug-related crime in metro Atlanta increased slightly in part due to Atlanta becoming an important distribution center for cocaine and other related drugs imported from Mexico These increases were mostly seen in Fulton Gwinnett DeKalb Cobb and Clayton counties Many law enforcement agencies in the area have joined forces together with the Atlanta Police Department in an effort to decrease the overall crime in metro Atlanta. . . M 1810 251,407 54.5% 3 LGBT+ All portions of Fulton County outside of the city limits of Atlanta are served by the Fulton County School System. Electric power introduced 4 Geography 13 Transportation 33/1 56/13 At the same time the white population of Atlanta has increased Between 2000 and 2010 the proportion of whites in the city's population grew faster than any other U.S city in that decade Atlanta's white population grew from 31% to 38% of the city's population an absolute increase of 22,753 people more than triple the increase that occurred between 1990 and 2000. Military Atlanta contains several outdoor attractions the Atlanta Botanical Garden adjacent to Piedmont Park is home to the 600-foot-long (180 m) Kendeda Canopy Walk a skywalk that allows visitors to tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests from 40-foot-high (12 m) the Canopy Walk is considered the only canopy-level pathway of its kind in the United States Zoo Atlanta in Grant Park accommodates over 1,300 animals representing more than 220 species Home to the nation's largest collections of gorillas and orangutans the Zoo is one of only four zoos in the U.S to house giant pandas Festivals showcasing arts and crafts film and music including the Atlanta Dogwood Festival the Atlanta Film Festival and Music Midtown respectively are also popular with tourists. While their rivalry with the Philadelphia Phillies lacks the history and hatred of the Mets it has been the more important one in the last decade Between 1993 and 2013 the two teams reigned almost exclusively as NL East champions the exceptions being in 2006 when the Mets won their first division title since 1988 (no division titles were awarded in 1994 due to the player's strike) and in 2012 when the Washington Nationals claimed their first division title since 1981 when playing as the Montreal Expos the Phillies 1993 championship was also part of a four-year reign of exclusive division championships by the Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates their in-state rivals While rivalries are generally characterized by mutual hatred the Braves and Phillies deeply respect each other Each game played (18 games in 2011) is vastly important between these two NL East giants but at the end of the day they are very similar organizations Overall the Braves have one more National League East division title than the Phillies having won 12 times each since 1969 with the Braves holding it for eleven consecutive years from 1995 through 2005.
Concourse B at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the world's busiest airport 4 Film The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar electro-optics and materials engineering Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research especially government-funded classified work is conducted through this counterpart organization GTRI employs over 1,700 people and had $305 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 the other institutes include: the Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute the Institute of Paper Science and Technology Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology. Another proposed plan that has received very strong grassroots support in recent years is the BeltLine a greenbelt and transit system that takes advantage of existing and unused rail tracks to set up a 22-mile (35 km) light rail or streetcar circuit around the core of Atlanta as well as establishing more green space and footpaths for pedestrians and bicyclists; 13 See also Midtown Atlanta or Midtown is a high-density commercial and residential neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia the exact geographical extent of the area is ill-defined due to differing definitions used by the city residents and local business groups However the commercial core of the area is anchored by a series of high-rise office buildings condominiums hotels and high-end retail along Peachtree Street between North Avenue and 17th Street Midtown situated between Downtown to the south and Buckhead to the north is the second-largest business district in Metro Atlanta in 2011 Midtown had a resident population of 41,681 and a business population of 81,418, 3.1 Edge cities 3 Germany 20 18 27 65 These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1996 Games. Rogers Hornsby Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates who was the first African American director of the Library System a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988 the building was designed by Marcel Breuer a participant in the innovative Bauhaus movement working side-by-side with his associate Hamilton Smith the Central Library was dedicated on May 25 1980 and Breuer would die a year later on July 1981 at the age of 81.
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