Sparrows Point – then and now By: Joe Nathanson May 26, 2022 I came to Baltimore in 1970 to work at the Regional Planning Council, a predecessor of today’s Baltimore Metropolitan Council. My work was as part of a team analyzing the demographic and economic trends shaping the region
Read more →LAI Chapter Member Dan Pontious, Housing Policy Coordinator for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, gave a LAI Baltimore presentation: August 18, 2021 “Wrestling with the Roots of LAI” Zoom presentation, PowerPoint. In case you want more detail on the role Richard Ely and others played in the early
Read more →Maryland already is confronting the climate crisis By: Joe Nathanson May 5, 2022 Another Earth Day has come and gone. For over 50 years we have marked April 22 as a reminder of the obligations we have to protect the environment for the benefit of all life
Read more →March 31, 2022 NPR by Vanessa Romo A secretive LA group has a new mission: paint untouched crosswalks
Read more →GAMECHANGERS Seema D. Iyer is Improving Local Neighborhoods One Micro-Metric at a Time Annual report by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance aims to address community problems head on. Click here to read more.
Read more →A planned community matures By: Joe Nathanson March 25, 2022 The plaque had been missing for some months. But, a few days ago, it reappeared in its new location near the newly reconfigured entrance to the Village of Cross Keys in north Baltimore. The plaque sits in
Read more →LAI Sacramento LEW May 5 – 7, 2022 Hyatt Regency Sacramento, CA LAI Los Angeles LEW October 13 – 15, 2022 Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Please visit LAI’s website for more information on upcoming LEWs.
Read more →Baltimore Chapter Member Rachel Edds has been selected for the 2021 LAI International Member of the Year Award. She will be presented the award at the upcoming May 5-7, 2022 Sacramento Land Economics Weekend. Congratulations, Rachel, so well deserved! This award is selected from Chapter nominations of Chapter
Read more →Reinvesting in a historic city neighborhood By: Joe Nathanson February 24, 2022 A little over five years ago, a consulting assignment took me to Miami, specifically to Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. Overtown was once the heart of Miami’s African American community. During the South’s Jim Crow era, Overtown
Read more →Conversation Series Spring 2022 https://baltimoresistercities.org/architecture-spring2022/ Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. We will observe how
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