Tom, (Friedman) - I don't know whether the "world is flat," but I do know that we live in an interfaith age. Our urban landscapes are changing. Here in Atlanta (yes, I did say Atlanta, not in the suburbs!) the place to be is the new multi-use high rise development called Atlantic Station. Stores, offices, restaurants, dog walking paths, apartments, homes, condos - and oh yes, parking. It's all there - built over the last few years on the abandoned Atlanta Steel site just north of Georgia Tech.
If your penthouse faces south toward 14th Street, you get a picture window view of the latest change in American urban religious architecture. It's a steeple...oops, no - it's a minaret. Copper domes and arabesque walls built in octagonal fashion so the mosque can both face the East and align with the mid-town city streets.
Friends, welcome to the neighborhood!
Photo Note: Atlanta Journal Constitution - July 5, 2007
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