Unfamiliar Skyline Series...Cities in the Middle East

Istanbul, Turkey

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Istanbul, Turkey

Ankara, Turkey

Dubai, United Arab Emirites

Dubai, United Arab Emirites

Beirut, Lebanon

Tehran, Iran

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Presentation of the Northwood Plaza Conceptual Designs & Survey Results

From the Northwood Plaza Working Group:

Presentation of the Northwood Plaza Conceptual Designs & Survey Results
The Northwood Plaza Design Team* is thrilled to present the conceptual designs resulting from the Community Design Workshop held in January, 2008. The workshop was well-attended and generated incredible ideas.

Please join us next month for a presentation of conceptual designs for the Northwood Plaza, the results of the community planning survey that many of you completed online, and more lively discussion!

April 12th, 2008 from 10:00am to noon
Morgan State University
Theater, 1st floor of the Student Center

The Student Center is located between Hillen Road and Stadium Way, just north of Argonne Drive. The garage is accessible off of Stadium Way at a cost of 50 cents per hour. There is a bridge from the garage to the Student Center on the 3rd floor.

Please feel free to post or forward this information or to reply with questions. We hope to see you there!

How to Participate in the Developlment and Zoning Process in Baltimore County

• Interested in development or zoning in your community?
• Want to make sure you voice is heard?
• Confused by the intricacies of the development Process?

Come out and attend the free seminars on Development and Zoning Process in Baltimore County

Who should attend?
Property Owners, Civic Association Members, Attorneys, Public Interest Advocates

Session 1: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Development Plan Process
Catonsville Library - March 6/ Towson Library - March 12/ Noth Point Library - March 19

Session 2: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Special Development Reviews
Catonsville Library - April 3/ Towson Library - April 21 / North Point Library - April 22

Session 3: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Zoning Variances/Exceptions
Catsonsville Library - May 5/ Towson Library - May 14/ North Point Library - May 27

ULI Baltimore Presents: Form Based Codes: Understand Them and the Opportunities They Create

Friday, March 14, 2008
(7:30-8:00 am networking - 8:15 – 9:30 am program / presentation)
Johns Hopkins Downtown Center
10 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD

Through the leadership of Doug McCoach, the Baltimore Director of Planning, Baltimore is the process of overhauling the city's zoning requirements, through an initiative entitled Transform Baltimore. As part of this initiative, the Form Based Code is being considered for areas of the city. Join us on March 14th to better understand what the Form Based Code is, why Baltimore is considering the Form Based Code and the opportunities this code will have for developments within the City.

Speakers:
Doug McCoach, Director of Planning, City of Baltimore
Jeff Speck, National Form-based code expert
Jim Epstein, Chairman of EFO Capital Management, Inc.
Bob Eisenberg, President, Heritage Property Company

Moderator:
Stuart Sirota, AICP, CNU, Principal
TND Planning Group

Check ULI Baltimore's website for more info.

Robert McClintock's views of Baltimore

The vibrant and widely collected work of Baltimore based photo/digital artist Robert McClintock, is at once attention grabbing and immediately recognizable. His adopted home, the eclectic city of Baltimore, has been his visual inspiration for the past eleven years.

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His popular collection of over 200 images titled “Baltimore Seen” spotlights representative landmarks, monuments, neighborhoods, and the well-loved restaurants and bars of greater Baltimore and may be viewed in his expanded, recently relocated gallery in the historic Baltimore waterfront neighborhood of Fell’s Point.

Bromo Lombard Tower

Upper Fells

Abell Ave Row House

Cab on the Block

Midtown - Charles Street North

The Towson Urban Core

York Road, in Downtown Towson

In a recent article called Street Sense, the Baltimore Sun wrote about the shops located in the Towson core to show that their are a variety of shops outside of the Mall.

For those not familiar with Towson, the large un-incorporated community is a suburb of Baltimore City sandwiched in between the city line and the Baltimore Beltway. While Towson only has 55,000 residents it is the seat of government for Baltimore County, boasts two major universities (including Towson University) and is the 2nd largest employment base outside of downtown Baltimore.

While Towson has a lot going for it, many of it's shops in the older and Historic urban core have been in decline since the local mall, Towson Town Center kept expanding to become a regional mall as it is today. While there have been several shops that have closed for business in Towson within the last several years, all is not lost for the community. A recent slew of development projects are slated for Towson which will dramatically increase the number of residents, commercial space and office space inside the core. The building boom in Towson could transform Towson the way that the building boom in the late 1960's into the 1970's took Towson from being a large town to a regional Urban Center.

For more about the shop in the Towson core, click here.