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

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

HarborPlace: How not to make a deal

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  "The full weight of city government is ready to make this a reality. We won't stop until this project comes to fruition" (Ma...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

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A future visitor would not recognize HarborPlace if  Bramble's radical proposa l for HarborPlace would  become reality. His suggested de...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Baltimore could have had this

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What could have been Even on this grey fall afternoon, they stood out as new and shiny among the somewhat tired looking neighbors: Two new o...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Mind the Gap

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"Show me a state that clicks on all cylinders and it’s largest city isn’t. For Maryland to thrive Baltimore needs to lead the charge. B...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Exhilarating Artscape

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 After a decade or so in which cities rode high on a wave of urbanism as desired lifestyle Covid brought an abrupt end to celebrating crowds...
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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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