City of Stone Mountain

Students from the Spring 2008 Preservation Planning class compiled and presented these design guidelines to the City of Stone Mountain. The design guidelines were meant to be used as a blueprint for rehabilitation or alteration of historic buildings and new construction. The guidelines present recommended and discouraged courses of action within the historic district. Three character groups are defined, commercial Main Street, a residential area centered on East and West Mountain streets, and Shermantown.https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_heritagepreservation/1040/thumbnail.jp

Single-Family Residential Development in DeKalb County 1945-1970

The Case studies class of spring of 2010 compiled this resource material. This study focused on suburban residential developments in DeKalb County, Georgia between the end of World War II and 1970 in order to better understand the transformation of the area after the Second World War. The resource includes data on national residential trends, architectural and landscape designs, as well as information on metropolitan Atlanta. The resource was created to support the effort to preserve local neighborhoods, buildings, and landmarks by providing the historic context in which they were created.https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_heritagepreservation/1038/thumbnail.jp

SoFIE Design/Status

Design status of the SoFIE project and a description of the BASS in Confined Spaces Experiment are presented