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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta
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This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet
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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-architect
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