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July 19, 2012
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This is the video the American Planning Association produced to announce the “National Planning Excellence Award for Planning Advocate” that it gave to Governor Martin O’Malley this spring. He was the first governor so honored in nearly a decade by the national professional planning organization.
October 11, 2011
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This article is featured in the October 2011 issue of Planning, the magazine of the American Planning Association
Jeff Peterson, a U.S. Navy nurse, phoned his wife Kristine to describe the apartment he’d found for them and their four-year-old son, Jack, in a spot just north of Washington, D.C. They had lived for several years on the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where frills were rare. So when he explained to her that the new apartment had a large, fancy supermarket on the ground floor, she nearly cried.
April 18, 2011
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Reflections on some National American Planning Association conference sessions
On Monday (April 11, 2011) I attended a session that previewed chapters of a forthcoming book titled “Regional Planning in America.” One presentation focused on the contributions of noted landscape architect, Ian McHarg, the author of Design with Nature. McHarg, who also founded the firm Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd, helped usher in a new era of planning by More
April 8, 2010
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Time to go to the train station, about a mile from the State Office Building. This time tomorrow I’ll still be aboard, in Mississippi somewhere, but nearing the end of the 27 hour trip. I couldn’t find direct comparisons, but it takes 17 hours in 2010 to travel from DC to Chicago on the Capitol Limited. In 1883, a New York to Chicago trip was advertised as 25 hours and 40 minutes. By 1938 it was down to 16 hours on the 20th Century Limited. It sure seems like rail travel times have stagnated as chronological time has progressed.
Article written by Steve Allan, regional planner with the Maryland Department of Planning
December 16, 2009
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In its national awards, the American Planning Association recently gave its 2010 National Planning Landmark Award to Baltimore County’s “Plan for the Valleys.”
Here’s the award summary from the APA: “In the early 1960s, the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys, a rural region of Baltimore County, Maryland, was facing intense urbanization pressure. The community had the foresight to realize that if uncontrolled, the growth would surely wipe out More