For decades, Black Blocks was a space nobody cared about until skaters took it as their own - and fought to protect it from the gentrification sweeping Atlanta.
Like every American city, homelessness in Atlanta is all too commonplace. The economic downturn hit this city hard, and gentrification finds no space for those who are desperate.
Photographer Richard Sandler captured the chaos and creativity on the streets, before the Big Apple was hollowed out by greedy real estate speculators like Donald Trump.
