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Michael Dobbins
Leon S. Eplan, FAICP, was twice Atlanta's commissioner of planning and development before and then during the six-year lead-up to the Games. He initiated and prepared the city's Olympic Development...view moreLeon S. Eplan, FAICP, was twice Atlanta's commissioner of planning and development before and then during the six-year lead-up to the Games. He initiated and prepared the city's Olympic Development Program and then helped to establish its Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta. H. Randal Roark, FAICP, is a retired professor of the College of Planning Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as director of planning and design for the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta for the 1996 Games. Michael Dobbins, FAICP, FAIA, succeeded Eplan in 1996, becoming Atlanta's commissioner of planning, development and neighborhood conservation for the following six years. Serving in that position during and after the Games, he was able to finalize several uncompleted ODP projects following the Games, as well as oversee several major post-Olympics initiatives that were related to or induced by the Games.view less
Books by Michael Dobbins
Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City