Maryland
Drugs Too Much For Urban Pioneers
Inner-city Baltimore rehabbers couldn't contend with the local drug market, yet they believe the city's Selling City-Owned Property Efficiently led just as much to their departure.
Fair Housing Law Could Backfire
A law intended to clarify non-discriminatory requirements for lenders -- and upping violation fines dramatically -- could actually scare banks away from doing any business in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Planning With Legos
University of Maryland researchers will conduct a series of visioning exercises to pick locations for future jobs and housing by placing Legos building blocks on a map. It's the latest trend in growth visioning exercises.
Baltimore's Central Light Rail Line -- Second Time A Charm?
Nearly all of the Maryland Transit Administration's Central Light Rail Line is now double tracked -- at long last.
Maryland Government Considers Eminent Domain Bills
43 bills have hit the legislature, in attempts to limit government power.
Biotech In, Residents Out?
For over four years, longtime residents of Baltimore's Middle East neighborhood have been threatened with eviction in the name of high-tech business development.
Car-less In Baltimore
Over 205,000 Baltimore residents don't own cars -- 32 percent of the city's population -- leaving many 'lost' and vulnerable to any Katrina-like disaster.
Growth Threatens Water Supplies
New Maryland real estate developments are straining water-supply networks and could lead to chronic shortages and water-use restrictions.
'Green Harbor', Urban Ecotopia
The alter-ego of the Inner Harbor's 'hardscape', Baltimore's nearby Middle Branch harbor is set to become a model sustainable neighborhood, complete with hiking trails and alternative energy sources, if developers' visions go according to plan.
Death In The City
There were 269 murders in Baltimore City in 2005, after a 1999 campaign promise by Mayor Martin O'Malley to reduce the number to 175. What do so many homicides do to a city's psyche?
A Slew Of TODs In Works For Baltimore
Light rail and subway lines are spawning a series of new developments.
Condofication Comes to Baltimore
What would you do if your rent went from $595 per month to $200,000 to buy?
Wal-Mart Forced To Increase Health Benefits In Maryland
A new state bill, opposed by the governor, will apply only to the corporate giant.
Plan Proceeds for A New Highway at Nation’s Capital
State and federal highway officials agree on a final plan to build a $2.4 billion highway through Washington's suburbs.
Historic Estate Plan Draws Opposition
Charles Carroll descendants' may allow development of their Doughoregan estate. (Carroll is the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.)
Ye Olde Starbucks
Annapolitans are steamed about a proposal to insert the chain into a 1784 tavern.
Keeping Traffic Moving: The Toll Taker
If you think your job as a planner is tough, thank your stars that you're not a toll taker.
Preservation The Nation's Last Shaker Community
Final four members of America's only populated Shaker village, in rural Maine, agree to a preservation plan to protect the enclave from subdivisions.
ELF Strikes Again, Burning Maryland Townhouses
The environmental terrorist group, Earth Liberation Front, claims responsibility for four fires at a housing development site.
Keeping Rural Roads Rural
While Transportation Engineers often work with the premise that the client is the car, in Baltimore County, MD a consultant group has recommended letting the single lane rural roads meander.
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
