Colman, ScottFinley, Dawn2020-04-232020-04-232020-052020-04-22May 2020Nazli, Mediha Aylin. "Amplifying Atlanta." (2020) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108347">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108347</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108347Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban sprawl and traffic congestion through strategies of connectivity, walkability, and environmental sustainability. This thesis embraces these challenges, amplifies the city’s existing urban fabric and capitalizes on emerging infrastructure to provide a possible framework for the city’s future growth. This speculative framework provides a platform for a scalar approach to increasing density, implementing a patchwork zoning strategy, preserving prominent characteristics of the city, and prioritizing space within the urban core for a new type that represents the “missing middle”.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Atlanta BeltlineInfrastructureTree CanopyThesis2020-04-23