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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

Skeptics who had seen Brown's Baltimore Symphony Center development never believed that Brown really intended to work with a well known and expensive architect beyond creating a few eye candy sketches and renderings that would convince CHAP. After a while, frustration about the prominent downtown "bombing site" grew.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

But as the earlier guides made clear, there is more to the boroughs than the familiar sites found in other guidebooks; and the boroughs are made up of people, not just buildings and landscapes, and it was those people that interested Helmreich the most. Their voices permeate The Bronx Nobody Knows , just as in the other guides.

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How the failed Security Square Mall could become a thriving town center

Community Architect Daily

Parking structures and lots accentuate this effect, creating a concrete moat that limits accessibility from beyond the site, except by automobile, and separates the mall from community life. In the 1950s, this was the brave new world of shopping; in the 2000s, it is an anachronism, an artifact of a world that no longer exists. (