Atlanta's Ansley Park has been designated one of the country's "10 Great Neighborhoods" for 2011, according to the American Planning Association. The group highlighted the 107-year old neighborhood's expanses of parks, its views of the Midtown business district and eclectic architecture.
The 275-acre neighborhood was designed so that no home is more than a 10-minute walk from one of 14 parks, five of which create a continuous link from northeast to southwest. The open spaces cover nearly a third of the neighborhood.
"Neighborhoods are layers of history, and neighborhoods are layers of effort by the folks who came before," said Doug Young, an Atlanta planning official. "You're talking about lots of hard work."
In receiving a "Great Neighborhood" designation, Ansley Park joins neighborhoods in Birmingham, Chicago, Berkeley, Ca. and Providence, R.I.. This is the first time an Atlanta neighborhood has been chosen.
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