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The line of demarcation between the creative class and the service class in Atlanta has historically divided the city in half. Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech, more recently notes, "One of the shifts that's been going on for 20 years now is the conversion of all of the old warehouses and factories where the working class used to work into lofts lived in by the creative class types." As manufacturing in Atlanta pushes more and more toward the periphery, the service class continues to settle in Atlanta's suburbs and not in the city proper.
