Atlanta's Quest For Parks

"The story of Boston's Post Office Square offers inspiration. For decades, downtown Boston was a maze of brick, stone, glass and concrete with barely a sprig of green.And for decades, right in the middle of downtown, surrounded by skyscrapers quartering some of Boston's leading businesses, was an aging, decrepit multistory parking deck. In 1982, a group of business leaders concerned about green space came together to discuss a vision for replacing the parking deck with a beautiful park at street level with underground parking below."