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An architectural, urban design, planning, transportation and urban policy blog with focus on the Baltimore region

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Good News Baltimore: Rash Field Now Complete

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 I didn't make it to the grand opening but have peeked through the fence for months. So last Friday I walked down the promenade to see t...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

City DOT Remains on Shaky Ground

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Until 2001 Baltimore didn't even have a department of transportation. Like in so many rural counties, transportation was rolled into the...
Monday, August 3, 2026

Baltimore's Transit Trap: Making the Same Mistake Over and Over

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Here is a message for MTA's new transit administrator: Do not repeat past mistakes.  It isn't news to anybody that very few people h...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Why is Boston Growing and Baltimore Shrinking?

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  Similarities Boston and Baltimore seem to be made for a comparison. They are similar in size, they are both historic Atlantic seaport citi...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The Key Bridge Saga Continues

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The collapse of the iconic over two years ago Key Bridge has pretty much receded into the distant past bunched up with all the other calamit...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

The Reimagined Middle Branch - Baltimore's Top Economic Engine

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Ever since Kevin Plank's Port Covington chimera of an Under Armour driven innovation city on the Middle Branch collapsed on its own weig...
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Klaus Philipsen
Klaus Philipsen is president of ArchPlan Inc., an architecture and urban design firm in Baltimore specializing in award winning community revitalization, adaptive re-use, historic preservation and transportation projects since 1992. He writes as a passion and has connected the love of the word with his professional experience as a freelance writer for local newspapers, and as a blogger on urban design, planning, architecture and transportation. I received a five year degree of architecture at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. I also worked as an architect and planner in Stuttgart, Germany London, England before coming to the US in1986. I have taught architecture and urban design as adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and at Morgan State University, am a frequent speaker at international, national, regional and local events and an occasional contributor on local radio.
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