Baltimore City Planning

A 2018 aerial view of Baltimore and environs. The non-profit Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA), operating out of the University of Baltimore's Jacob France Institute, strengthens Baltimore communities by providing their leadership with meaningful, accurate, and open data at the neighborhood level. (photo credit: Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)

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BNIA's data mission: Tracking city trends to build a better Baltimore

Jayne Miller

The director of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance joins guest host Jayne Miller to explain how - and why - her non-profit gathers data on the important changes underway in the Baltimore region.

A westward view of the never-completed West Baltimore extension to Interstate 70, now known as "the Highway to Nowhere." The massive road project was started in 1974 but scrapped in 1979, largely due to environmental and neighborhood activists. Only 1.4 of the slated 2.3 miles of I-170 were ever built. More than 1,500 mostly Black West Baltimore residents were displaced; 971 homes, 62 businesses, and one school were demolished. The area would never recover. (photo credit Wikimedia Commons)

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Baltimore's highway wars: author E.Evans Paull, with Klaus Philipsen

Tom Hall

"Stop the Road" author E. Evans Paull and architect/urban planner Klaus Philipsen recount Baltimore's decades-long battles — some won, some lost — to stave off massive, community-destroying highway projects.

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Removing Racism from the Structure

Sheilah Kast

Average citizens--the very people affected by city zoning and development decisions --are often in the dark about how to take part in the discussions that…