Maryland
Baltimore A Magnet For Female Homebuyers
With relatively affordable housing stock and an increasingly desirable urban environment, Baltimore has attracted single female homebuyers at twice the national average.
An Index For Measuring Income Segregation
This academic journal article proposes a new index that that can be used to relate income segregation on the spatial arrangement of neighborhoods, and uses examples from Baltimore, Maryland.
Compromised Inclusionary Housing Bill Faces Approval In Baltimore
A controversial inclusionary housing bill is up for approval in Baltimore, Maryland, that would eventually require all new residential projects with 30 or more units to have a certain percentage of affordable housing.
Locals Staunchly Opposed To Affordable Housing Proposal
Plans to build affordable housing in Baltimore have incited local residents to collect hundreds of signatures in opposition to what they fear will destroy their neighborhood.
Infill Issues Deepened in Established Neighborhoods
Immensely divergent interests collide as Howard County struggles with the thorny question of development.
Bigger School Campuses Contributing To Sprawl
One in four new schools approved for state funding in the past four years is being built beyond designated growth boundaries.
New Water Brings End To Development Moratorium
Amid a new regulation that limits development based on the amount of water municipalities can provide, a city in northern Maryland will receive additional allocations of water to allow new development, ending a 6-month building moratorium.
Which Should Come First: Infrastructure Or Development?
The mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, wants to overrule a bill that delays all building until adequate infrastructure is in place. Lifting the ban, she says, would streamline planning in the city, but many worry that it would allow too much development.
Suburban Growth Slows Near Washington, D.C.
Census data indicates slow growth or decline in suburban population, but some local officials disagree.
Paying $1 Per Mile To Speed Past Traffic
Time-sensitive commuters would benefit from proposed toll express lanes for D.C. area freeways, which would be built on congested carpool lanes by private companies. Carpools would still use the lanes free of charge.
Residents Worry As Mixed Use Project Eyes Open Space
A proposed mixed use development on one of the city's last open spaces in a sea of housing and retail has Annapolis, Maryland, locals up in arms about the possible negative impacts of the development.
Community's Identity Questioned As Demographics Shift
As housing prices decrease, demographics shift again in North Brentwood, Maryland, where a large Latin American population has moved into a primarily African American community.
Resident Oppose Bus Depot Plans For Farmland
Residents have voiced their concerns over Baltimore County plans to purchase a 26-acre farm that include using part of the open space as a school bus depot.
Residents Wary Of High Rises? Buy 'Em A Balloon
In order to help residents understand the possible implications of a new multi-story transit oriented development, a developer plans to illustrate building heights by raising large balloons into the air where the buildings would stand.
New Housing Prohibited In Crowded School Areas
In Harford County, Maryland, an ordinance has been approved that would strictly limit the development of new homes in areas with overcrowded schools.
Amid Abuse, Maryland May Ban 'Ground Rents'
A bill is being pushed forward in Maryland that would ban all new "ground rents" -- a housing ownership situation in which one owner owns a house and another owns the land beneath the house. Some say the system is being used in a "predatory" way.
Maryland's Governor Elect To Revive Smart Growth Policies
Governor-elect Martin O'Malley wants to redirect the state down the path of smart growth charted by former Governor Parris Glendening.
Baltimore Installs Solar-Powered Parking Meters
The new high tech meters allow drivers to take their unused time to another parking spot in the city.
Saving A Historic Structure From A Road Widening Project
In Baltimore County, Maryland, historic African-American school building will be moved away from dangerous traffic.
Environmental Clean Up Regulations May Have The Opposite Effect
One Maryland county cites that the state plan to restore Chesapeake Bay will actually create more sprawl and pollution.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
