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Friday, February 21, 2025

Baltimore Vacant Houses: Finally Progress and a Viable Plan!

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Mayor Brandon Scott's administration and his Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy  seem to finally have found a recipe for reducing Baltim...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Mall Makeovers: How to Build Real Town Centers and Transit Oriented Development

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  Invited by ULI to speak about the potential of  Lutherville Station to become a successful Transit Oriented Development (TOD), and appoint...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Baltimore Life Sciences and the new 4MLK

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 The year was 2003, Martin O'Malley had been Mayor for four years seeing  Bio-Tech as chance for Baltimore ,  with Johns Hopkins Medicin...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Where does Baltimore stand at the end of 2024?

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Is the glass half empty or more than half full? With the Red Line again moving further away from reality thanks to the envisioned Maryland b...
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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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