Buckhead's nighttime visitors are essentially tourists too. Being Just , has a moral quality about it. Beauty is hospitable. It invites us into a relationship with the world and other people. Where people have invested in architecture that respects human scale and the eye's delight, where they have paid attention to the natural world in which the city was built, where they imagine cities as places of human gathering rather than just places of commerce, life is experienced very differently.
Violence is a protest against the absence of beauty.
Atlanta's developers desecrated our city and now everyone's shocked when violence of another type erupts in the landscapes of desecration. Atlanta's symbol is the Phoenix, that bird of mythology that burns itself every 500 years and then resurrects itself in a new body. We chose the symbol because we resurrected ourselves after the city's infamous burning during the Civil War. But we have never given up living that story. We continue to destroy the old, the natural and the beautiful to build more commerce.