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

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Copycat - Baltimore's largest Arts Experiment Comes to an End

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On the Auction Block The Copycat building in Baltimore's Station North Arts District shows up in several chapters in of Baltimore's ...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Retired Baltimore Subway Cars for the Homeless?

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 After almost 40 years of service the MTA subway car fleet has reached its end of life and will be replaced with new cars beginning this ye...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Does Baltimore Need More Mega Projects?

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Baltimore's history is a mix of innovation and complacency.  On the innovation side stand history altering projects that put Baltimore ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Housing Regulations to be Relaxed in Baltimore

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 In the quest for affordable housing a wave of code reform is sweeping America and Baltimore is no exception. A slate of bills under the tit...
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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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