Peachtree Center Flags -- Atlanta GA USA
N 33° 45.625 W 084° 23.231
16S E 741995 N 3738658
Many country flags are on display in the entry mall to Peachtree Center in downtown Atlanta GA
Waymark Code: WMWN5R
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2017
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Peachtree Center is located on NE Peachtree Street at Andrew Young International Blvd NE in downtown Atlanta. It's basically a big mall surrounded by convention hotels.
It's not completely clear why there are so many flags of countries here, but Blasterz bet that they represent the many countries that have their embassies located in the Peachtree Center. It would be nice if there was a sign in this area saying explaining the presence of all these foreign country flags.
The day Blasterz were there, we counted 33 flags on display, from the following countries:
United States
Panama
Norway
Spain
Luxembourg
Yemen
US State of Georgia
South Africa
Finland
Russia
Sweden
Australia
Israel
Brazil
City of Hong Kong
Kenya
Thailand
Venezuela
Mexico
Korea
Japan
Italy
Germany
Taiwan
France
Canada
Belgium
Bermuda
Switzerland
Guatamala
Greece
Ireland
United Kingdom
From Wikipedia: (
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"Peachtree Center is a district located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the structures that make up the district were designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman, Jr.. A defining feature of the Peachtree Center is a network of enclosed pedestrian sky bridges suspended above the street-level, which have garnered criticism for discouraging pedestrian street life. The district is served by the Peachtree Center MARTA station, providing access to rapid transit.
History
Intended to be the new downtown for Atlanta, Peachtree Center emerged as a distinct district in the early 1970s as a networked realm of convention hotels, shopping galleries, and office buildings a quarter-mile north of Five Points. Peachtree Center is notable for its uniform embodiment of the modern architectural style popular at the time. Yet the defining feature of Peachtree Center is its insular orientation, which allows patrons and workers to avoid interacting with the street level by traversing the area through sky bridges. By the mid-1980s, Peachtree Center had become the core of a dedicated hotel-convention district that lay at the heart of the Downtown economy, even as the remainder of Downtown Atlanta deteriorated markedly.
While at the time Peachtree Center was considered the salvation of a decaying downtown Atlanta, contemporary city planning is highly critical of such insular environments that "turn their back" on the city streets. Thus, as intown Atlanta began its post-1990 resurgence, Peachtree Center was increasingly criticized as an area that epitomized contemporary Atlanta's generic urbanity and sense of placelessness. Other critics claim that Peachtree Center is disorienting, killed downtown street-life, and disregarded the existing urban context."
People in Atlanta should not feel bad: we made the same mistakes in Dallas, and it has taken DECADES to recover.