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

Monday, September 16, 2019

The new Camden Station - something the MTA got right

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Baltimore's Camden Station and its adjacent B&O warehouse have a storied history. The fame of the adjacent Oriole Park, taking advan...
Monday, September 9, 2019

MTA to businesses: You need change how you do land use!

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The "Transit Summits" of the Greater Baltimore Committee have become routine and so have GBC executive Don Fry's admonitions t...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

One way to have fewer vacant rowhouses

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It is a heavy lift to fill the 24,000 or so vacant Baltimore rowhouses. At $200,000 a piece this would cost $4.8 billion, a figure that exce...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Another Bay bridge is insanity

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It so happened that the shortlist of options for another Bay crossing along with Governor Hogan's stated preference were announced on th...

Heavy timber office building comes to Baltimore

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The Collective at Canton: Site plan (Moseley Architects) Washington DC has one, so does Minneapolis, Denver, Portland and a growing numb...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Connecting the dots: Working from strength in West Baltimore

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The West Baltimore MARC station area is not included in the four Impact Investment Areas of Upton/ Druid Heights, Park Heights, East Baltimo...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The region's transit is in a hole

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With a sinkhole shutting down the central section of MTA's  Light Rail Link for weeks, the Streetsblog headline that " Maryland is ...
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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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