Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance. Baltimore - Find things to do and places to see. Baltimore Free Farm. [outdoor] Baltimore Slumlord Watch. South Baltimore, SouthBmore.com, News, Real Estate, Dining, Sports, Business Directory and more. Preserving and promoting Baltimore's historic buildings and neighborhoods. Despite the chilly spring weather, our archaeological investigation of the War of 1812 in Patterson Park starts this morning with a week of remote sensing led by consultant Dr.
Tim Horsley and Fieldwork Director Greg Katz with volunteers from the Archaeological Society of Maryland. Read on for some background on remote sensing, our work in the park this week and what we’re trying to learn! Share your questions in the comments or stop by the park on Thursday evening to meet our team and enjoy a high-tech archaeology show-and-tell. What is remote sensing? Geophysical remote sensing is an important tool for modern archaeological research. What is going on in the park this week (March 24-28)? The team is starting by laying out a survey grid of 30-meter squares extending north and south from the Pagoda. Once a grid is established, the team plans to use a magentometer survey covering an area of about 5 acres to find a “signature” for the earthworks.
Find more details on our event page. What Dan Kildee wants America to learn from the sorry tale of Flint, Mich. Click here for a slideshow of one abandoned block in Flint, Mich.
Dan Kildee is driving with his knees and talking with his hands as his rental car pushes 80 mph on a stretch of Interstate 69 near East Lansing, Mich. But that's not what scares me. What really gets me nervous is how he insists on eye contact as he discusses his plan for saving the rest of America from the sorry fate suffered by our shared hometown of Flint.
"It really comes down to getting people to stop assuming that expansion is always desirable," Kildee says. "The important thing is how people feel about their city when they stand on their front porch in the morning, not how many people actually live in the city. As we swerve around a familiar Michigan tableau—a dead deer on the side of the highway—Kildee previews the speech he is scheduled to deliver that afternoon on a familiar Michigan imponderable: "The Future of Michigan Cities. " Kildee managed to tear down more than 1,000 houses before leaving the land bank. Patterson Park Place: The Patterson Park Community Development Corp. Helped Some East-Side Neighborhoods Go From Bust To Boom. What’s its Next Move? The Patterson Park Community Development Corp.
Helped Some East-Side Neighborhoods Go From Bust To Boom. What’s its Next Move? Six and a half years ago, Jolyn Rademacher moved to Baltimore from Texas. She says she decided to leave San Antonio, where she was doing Christian mission work, because she really liked Baltimore and the idea of living close to the green expanse of Patterson Park. “I had made a number of trips to Baltimore over a couple of years with the young adults I worked with,” she says.
She bought a house on Luzerne Avenue, just steps from the park, for $66,000. As Rademacher describes it, it was a trying time for her. It was a fairly uncertain time for her new neighborhood as well. At the time, the blocks just north of the park were what some urban experts would call “transitional”: low- and moderate-income singles, couples, and families, both white and black, still lived there, but the neighborhood was fighting a loss of homeowners and ridiculously low property values. Baltimore has decided some neighborhoods just aren’t worth saving. By Yepoka Yeebo In Baltimore the wrecks stretch for blocks in every direction.
Shattered windows, buckling walls, sometimes just a façade, propped up by the houses on either side. The vacant streets are punctuated by the odd meticulously kept home, a living city slowly turning into a ghost town. Click here to see some of the abandoned homes > Baltimore has tried to deal with the tens of thousands of abandoned houses that mar the city. There were radical efforts seize abandoned homes and sell off city-owned property. As Baltimore faces a $52 million budget shortfall, there is a more urgent need than ever to deal with the vacant homes, which still require public services like fire and police patrol. 47,000 vacant properties. The numbers vary depending on who’s counting, but the highest estimates suggest there are 46,800 vacant houses and lots in Baltimore — 16 percent of the city’s residences. Live in Baltimore - Discover Your Neighborhood. Car Free Baltimore, Baltimore MD.
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