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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

B-MORE | RESILIENT : One Winning Response to AIA's Rowhouse Competition 2015

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Resiliency is the fashionable word that replaced sustainability and like its predecessor, it means a lot of different things to a lot of dif...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Baltimore Taxis becoming more like Uber?

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The world of taxis is complicated and it isn't always a matter of entrenched old business interest versus disruptive innovation nor is i...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Ashkanazi "removes the identity of these sheds"

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UDARP was split in their opinions about the redesign of the HarborPlace Pavilions which have been before the design review panel for a secon...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Northeast Corridor

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While the public is captivated by flashy news about Maglev for the 38 miles piece of the Northeast Rail Corridor (NEC) that connects Baltimo...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Desolation into Hope: Example Westside Theater Initiative Le Mondo

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The 400 block of Howard Streets is a sad affair, on the east and on the west side. If it all goes by plan, things should look quite  differe...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Street Smart

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Former New York City commissioner, traffic columnist ("Gridlock Sam") and transportation consultant Sam Schwartz has written a boo...
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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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