According to a study conducted by Cousins Properties - one of the country’s top diversified development companies - Atlanta’s population should reach 808,000 by 2020. While the population is 470,688 - based on the census estimate released in July 2005 (Wikipedia: Atlanta, Georgia) - is expected to double by the year 2020. To be able to grasp that number one can look at today’s San Francisco, the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United States, with a 2005 population of 739,426 (Wikipedia: San Francisco, California).

What does that mean for us? Atlanta will become a better place to live, work, play; life will happen here. Non-mall shopping, entertainment and streets with pedestrian traffic on its boulevards would become reality. People will eventually stop spending hours in traffic, and will spend time with friends and families at the sidewalk cafes and parks.

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