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

Friday, March 14, 2025

Special Benefits Districts - Good or Bad? (The Case of Midtown)

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Complaints about sanitation, lack of green and crime are perennial in Baltimore. City Hall seems to be too cash-strapped and too disorganize...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Poe Museum: Can Poetry Become Architecture?

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Architecture can be like poetry, but is the reverse also possible? Baltimore architect Davin Hong of re:vital Design is trying to do just th...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Baltimore Vacant Houses: Finally Progress and a Viable Plan!

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Mayor Brandon Scott's administration and his Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy  seem to finally have found a recipe for reducing Baltim...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Mall Makeovers: How to Build Real Town Centers and Transit Oriented Development

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  Invited by ULI to speak about the potential of  Lutherville Station to become a successful Transit Oriented Development (TOD), and appoint...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Baltimore Life Sciences and the new 4MLK

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 The year was 2003, Martin O'Malley had been Mayor for four years seeing  Bio-Tech as chance for Baltimore ,  with Johns Hopkins Medicin...
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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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