Baltimore

April 30, 2013

Web Extra: Seema Iyer on the significance of Vital Signs in an age of open data

Web Extra: Comparing Baltimore data to other cities

Web Extra: Who should use Vital Signs?

M.J. “Jay” Brodie, former president of the Baltimore Development Corp. and now a columnist for the Baltimore Business Journal, shares his vision for the city, including his ideas for improving parts of East and West Baltimore. Also, we’ll touch on the recently announced plans to renovate Lexington Market, and the latest Red Line developments. 

January 29, 2013

Several years ago, Eric Eberhardt stumbled upon the idea of mixing the squawk of a police scanner with a soothing, ambient soundtrack. The result was the website, “You Are Listening To…”

Web Extra: MICA Professor Jason Sloan on the allure of listening to police scanners.

Web Extra: Sloan on why he regularly listens to police scanners.

During the first in a new Midday series on urban design and planning, architect Klaus Philipsen, co-chair of the Urban Design Committee of the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects, talks about the role design plays in city life and Baltimore's future. Philipsen is president of ArchPlan Inc. and is president and co-founder of D center, a Baltimore-based non-profit that works to advance the field of design.

Amid the rowhouses, graffiti and vacant lots of Baltimore, 10 farms have opened in recent years, growing vegetables and breeding　chickens, rabbits and goats. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is relaxing the city's livestock regulations to try to encourage more urban farms, which provide fresh food and an enhanced quality of life to the city.

You can live in Baltimore and care about history, and still have never heard the name Elisha Tyson.

If you like history, you may be feeling tugged in two directions these days: events marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War began last year and as they roll on they’re competing with observations of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Significant battles in both conflicts were fought in Maryland.