The Dirt

"Leave it to Atlanta — a city spreading across north Georgia like a glass of milk spilled at the dinner table — to generate a journal devoted to celebrating the construction of new suburbs.

That's what happened at Development Consultants Group, an engineering, planning and land surveying firm in Gwinnett County. Ten years ago, when DCG started documenting the local development scene in a newsletter called Dirt, they found that they had a lot to say — not just about the kudzu, machetes and zoning disputes that make up their life's work, but about the joys of sprawl, or, as they put it, 'Successfully Providing Residences, Amenities and Workplaces Locally.' "

Thanks to Chris Steins