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

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 seaport cities connec...
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...
Friday, May 8, 2026

The Forever Shrinking Baltimore Red Line

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24 years after planning began for the Baltimore Red Line,  11 Years after then Governor Hogan killed the fully designed and funded $3bn  Red...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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

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This is the Baltimore oriented version of the article. For a more general orientation click here The State of Downtown , according to its bo...
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...
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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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