A Big Year for Maryland Planning at National Awards in Seattle

March 31, 2015

David T. Whitaker, AICP Planning, Smart Growth , , , 1 Comment

Two Maryland planning agencies to receive American Planning Association national awards for planning excellence

APAlogoFor many decades Maryland has supported and fostered sound community and regional planning. This long term commitment to sound planning principles and planning innovation in the “Old Line State” will be recognized by the American Planning Association (APA) in April at their National Conference in Seattle, WA.   For the first time, APA will bestow national awards for planning excellence in the same year to two Maryland planning agencies. The Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) and the Montgomery County Planning Department will be the recipients of the awards announced today and to be presented in mid-April at the APA’s National Planning Conference in Seattle. More

Is There Life After Malls?

March 25, 2013

David T. Whitaker, AICP Smart Growth , , , , , , , , , , 5 Comments

(co-authored by John Coleman)

A typical suburban enclosed mall (Crossroads Mall; Omaha, Nebraska; Labelscar, the Retail History Blog)

The enclosed suburban shopping mall came to symbolize the height of middle class American culture from the 1960’s through the 1980’s. The ubiquitous shopping mall was a retail model that wooed stores away from downtowns and main street shopping areas. The enclosed mall became the location for retail, socializing, cinema and the ever present food courts where teens and their families often spent the afternoon far from their community and the comfy confines of their kitchens and dining room tables. More

“The Upsizing of White Flint”

October 11, 2011

Andrew Ratner Housing, Land Use, Planning, Smart Growth, Transportation , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

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.

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