he wrote it and called it the beltline. the reason he called it that is because it was already called the light in the late 1800s by railroads. so, let's me just back up and explain a little bit about atlanta in terms of transportation. chapter two in this book is a history of atlanta viewed through the lens of transportation. the city as many of you i'm sure no began in 1837 and was called terminus, a wonderful poetic name for a city. [laughter] >> very appealing. it was called that because it's where the railroad would end it. they taste bought arbitrarily where the railroad would end and it did and a bunch of other railroads crossed and by the late 1800s, well, by the civil war atlanta was a very important nexus of the railroads, which is why sherman burned it to the ground in 1864. atlanta came back with a vengeance colonist self the phoenix city. atlanta has always had this sort of can-do attitude and we are going to go forward and do what we need to do it is also always been completely full of itself and full of a lot