CITY OF ATLANTA

Atlanta was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line (it was first named Marthasville in honor of the then governor's daughter, nicknamed Terminus for its rail location, and then changed soon after to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic--as in the railroad). Today the fastest-growing city remains a transportation hub, not just for the country but also for the world: Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport is one of the nation's busiest in daily passenger flights.

The city has emerged as a banking center and is the world headquarters for 13 Fortune 500 companies. Atlanta is the capital city of the southeast, a city of the future with strong ties to its past. The old in new Atlanta is the soul of the city, the heritage that enhances the quality of life in a contemporary city. In the turbulent 60's, Atlanta was "the city too busy to hate." And today, in the 21st Century, Atlanta is the "city not too busy to care".

In the past two decades Atlanta has experienced unprecedented growth the official city population remains steady, at about 420,000, but the metro population has grown in the past decade by nearly 40%, from 2.9 million to 4.1 million people. A good measure of this growth is ever-changing downtown skyline, along with skyscrapers constructed in the Midtown, Buckhead, and outer perimeter (fringing I-285) business districts.

Since the late 1970's dozens of dazzling skyscrapers designed by such luminaries at Philip Johnson, I.M.Pel, and Marcel Breuer have reshaped the city's profile. Twenty-first Century, in Atlanta, history is being written...

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