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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Clean Streets, Empty Blocks: Is the "Rising" Downtown an Illusion?

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The State of Downtown , according to its boosters, the Downtown Partnership, is always good or rising. To many Baltimoreans it is a rather s...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Baltimore Transit: Prudent Pragmatism or Bait & Switch?

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Recently it became public that MDOT is considering to scale the Red Line back from what was presented to the public as the preferred alterna...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The Baltimore Region: Stronger Together at the Pikesville Armory

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 A cold rain was driving across expansive Pikesville Armory grounds when regional economic development directors and promoters assembled in ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

"We have a people crisis": Marylands Aggressive Pro Housing Legislation 2026

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“We’ve done a fantastic job telling people where they can’t build… we never finished the equation.” (Jake Day, Secretary DHCD) The general ...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Baltimore County to City Trail: After 54 Years Follow the Plans!

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How can an idea born back in 1973 by a wealthy Baltimore "housewife (SUN) that garnered popular support then and eventually found its w...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Bombshell News About the Key Bridge Rebuild

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 Just when I thought that enough had been said about the Key Bridge collapse and rebuild, (I wrote two previous blog articles on the topic) ...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Baltimore: The Jones Falls is waiting for you!

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 The world over cities are rediscovering their rivers. Historic Frederick, MD successfully looked at San Antonio, TX when it created its own...
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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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