[138][139][140] Some middle and upper class African-American residents of Atlanta followed an influx of whites to newer housing and public schools in the suburbs in the early 21st century. [143] Since 2010, the Atlanta area has seen very notable growth with immigrants from India, China, South Korea, and Jamaica. After Atlanta was awarded the Olympic games in 1990, gentrification expanded into other parts of the city, stimulated by infrastructure improvements undertaken in preparation for the games. Other notable city parks include Centennial Olympic Park, a legacy of the 1996 Summer Olympics that forms the centerpiece of the city's tourist district; Woodruff Park, which anchors the campus of Georgia State University; Grant Park, home to Zoo Atlanta; Chastain Park, which houses an amphitheater used for live music concerts; and the under construction Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry, the 280-acre green space and reservoir project slated to become the city's largest park when fully complete in the 2020s. Corporate operations play a major role in Atlanta's economy, as the city claims the nation's third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies (tied for third with Chicago). [57] By 1970, African Americans were the majority of the city's population and exercised their recently enforced voting rights and political influence by electing Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, in 1973. [344] This campus is primarily for Executive and Professional MBA programs as well as executive education programs. The Census Bureau will be releasing the full redistricting data toolkit by September 20, 2021. . [63] During the 1950s70s, suburbanization and white flight from urban areas led to a significant demographic shift. It is virtually the only housing authority to have created this requirement. [240][241][242], As the national leader for motion picture and television production,[202][243] and a top ten global leader,[205][202] Atlanta plays a significant role in the entertainment industry. [319], Atlanta offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation. [373] Emory University operates its Cliff shuttle buses with 200,000 boardings per month, while private minibuses supply Buford Highway. An enraged and organized lynch mob took him from jail in 1915 and hanged him in Marietta. please see the Vintage 2022 release notes available here: Release Notes. Yet architecturally, the city had never been traditionally "southern" because Atlanta originated as a railroad town, rather than a southern seaport dominated by the planter class, such as Savannah or Charleston. [275], Sports are an important part of the culture of Atlanta. [146] Within a few decades, and in keeping with national trends, immigrants from England, Ireland, and German-speaking central Europe were no longer the majority of Atlanta's foreign-born population. W. L. Hughes, "A Brief Chronology of the Technical Institute Movement in America." [167], With a GDP of $385billion,[168] the Atlanta metropolitan area's economy is the 11th-largest in the country and the 22nd-largest in the world. $74,107. These neighborhoods, many of which contain their own villages encircled by shaded, architecturally distinct residential streets, include the Victorian Inman Park, Bohemian East Atlanta, and eclectic Old Fourth Ward. [332][333], The Georgia Institute of Technology is a prominent public research university in Midtown.