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

Friday, February 25, 2022

Baltimore's vital signs - Anything pointing in the right direction?

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Population growth as a remedy for Baltimore has been the topic of this blog for many years. (See here , here ,  here  and here )). 20 years ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

"When our city knows more, we can become more" - What do you know about the Baltimore Banner?

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“It is hard to overstate the vitally important role that a strong newspaper can play in improving the quality of life for residents of the c...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

MTA's long range plan - will it be worth the paper?

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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” / “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. / “I...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

The suburbanization of Baltimore's waterfront

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When Otis Rolley was Planning Director there was much talk about the MIZOD, anoverlay that protected industrial  waterfront areas from being...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Finally: Electric buses coming to Baltimore in 2023

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Good news at years end To provide good news at the end of the year the MTA topped out 2021 with a press release about zero emission buses (...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Old Town Baltimore - an unkind mirror of Baltimore's planning history

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It is hard to imagine a place where desolation, abandonment and plain waste of space is more in your face than at Baltimore's Old Town, ...
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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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