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

Monday, August 20, 2018

Self fulfilling prophecy at the Lexington Market

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Like the head of a household with spouse and three children who is saving every penny towards a racy two seater Porsche,instead of tending t...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Why the City could regret dumping docked bikeshare

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So Baltimore City thinks it can jump to the front  of the line and embrace dockless bikes and scooters after a miserable failure with docked...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

How life-safety and narrow streets go together

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In the drama of bike advocacy versus fire safety the Baltimore Fire Department lost and important round when the Baltimore City Council last...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

How the SUN move could become a catalyst for unplugging Calvert Street

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The SUN's move of its offices and newsroom to Port Covington touches three questions: What will happen to the old site on Calvert Street...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Baltimore leading the nation in stress (Almost - thank you Detroit!)

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One could measure the stress of a city by counting how many one encounters on a sidewalk scowling or smiling. How many are angrily screaming...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

The future of Penn Station

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Baltimore has a tremendous asset which is not often talked about: It sits on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC), the closest thing the US...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

The scariest bridge in Baltimore

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The scariest bridge in Baltimore may well not be the Hanover Street Bridge, well known for its deteriorated state with exposed rebar and chu...
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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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