Maryland
Seeing A Hopeful Change In Baltimore City
While the gap between flourishing and decaying areas is growing, there are signs of a turnaround in Baltimore City.
Finding Suburbia At The 'Crossroads Of Vitality And Decline'
As Baltimore's housing costs rise, the future for the region's most affordable suburban communities remains uncertain.
Unsound Transportation Funding
Maryland legislature protests governor's plan to borrow heavily to build a new highway.
D.C. Driving Baltimore's Rising Home Costs
Baltimore and its suburbs see a rapid increase in housing costs as people flee the high cost living in the nation's capital.
Maryland's Highway Dilemma
Maryland has enough money to build a proposed multibillion dollar freeway, but only at the expense of dozens of other projects around the state that would have to be cut.
Maryland Assembly Shoots Down Granny-Flat Bill
A bill that would have made it easier to build accessory dwelling units across Maryland in order to provide affordable housing was shot down amid fears of overcrowding and traffic.
Where's The BEEF?
The Baltimore Efficiency and Economy Foundation has developed a way to sell vacant city-owned properties quickly, providing an opportunity to revitalize depressed neighborhoods.
Baltimore Looks at Tearing Out Elevated Freeway
Downtown redevelopment encompassing 60 acres could be "Baltimore's last chances for new grand-scale development."
Wal-Mart's Latest Loop-hole
Wal-Mart's latest solution to ordinances that limit the size of stores is to build two smaller stores side-by-side.
Feds Opposes New Maryland Highway Construction
Maryland county approves the construction a new highway despite public protest and environmental concerns.
Will EPA Objections Block Intercounty Connector?
EPA weighs in their objections and concerns regarding proposals for Maryland’s Intercounty Connector (ICC) construction.
Hybrids Flex Political Muscle
Gas-electric vehicle supporters hope to make Maryland a clean-air state.
Performing Arts Centers: No Longer Just For Downtown?
An increasing number of suburban jurisdictions are building major art centers.
Can Crime Be Considered An Epidemic?
An East Baltimore neighborhood has become so violent that one activist wants federal funding for the "epidemic."
Maryland's Step Backwards Into Sprawl
For Maryland's new Governor, 'Smart Growth is discouraged'.
Smart Growth Pioneer State Loses Ground In Farmland Preservation
In Maryland, development has sprawled into prime farmland targeted for preservation with public tax dollars.
Transit Lacks Political Will
Rail expansion takes a back seat to new highway.
Read My Lips: No New Subdivisions
Prince George's County officials put the brakes on unchecked residential growth.
In Favor Of Affordable Housing; Just Not Here
A small neighborhood school, or housing where teachers and other helping professionals can afford to live? Hard choices in suburban D.C.
How Big Businessmen Saved The City
A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.
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
