Everyday Urbanism & Atlantic Station Until Atlantic Station is finished being built and life begins within the development there is no way to truly know what will occur to the effect of Everyday Urbanism. As it is right now, Atlantic Station is a very structured and ordered development. There is very little room for development via the Everyday Urbanism. With Atlantic Station being a private development the only true public space that will be on the property is that of the roads that will be given back to the city when completed. With everything else being private that means there are lots of rules of what can and cannot be done on the property. Because of this, the unplanned use of space may be limited depending on what is tolerated. Brian Leary actually stated in a lecture to the Georgia Tech Common First Year Architecture class that he wants to encourage sidewalk musicians; he is even willing to find a Tech student and pay the person to play an instrument on some sidewalk around the property, but at the same time they will not allow "soapbox" speakers, i.e. religious evangelists or even pro/anti whatever protesters. One area that does have high potential for Everyday Urbanism to develop is the main parking deck. Atlantic Station's parking deck is being built to be more welcoming and friendly than some of the typical parking decks; they have higher ceilings and are not left as bare bones, this will give a greater sense of safety while in the parking deck and there is likelihood that more than just parking will occur in the parking deck. It will be interesting to see what is allowed to develop, what is not allowed to develop, and what shouldn't be allowed to develop but is tolerated.

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