Regional planning

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Personal papers related to the Red Line, Citizens Planning and Housing Association, and the Movement Against Destruction. Also included is a very rare original 1944 copy of Robert Moses's October 1944 "Baltimore Arterial Report" which formed the first basis for an East-West Expressway through our city.

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This collection documents the activities of the Citizens for Environmental Planning Today and Tomorrow (CEPT), a group of Baltimore County residents focused on development issues related to the Chestnut Ridge-Greenspring Valley area of the County, between 1975 and 1984. Materials are mainly textual and include minutes, correspondence, environmental statements, business manuals and directories, engineering design standards for housing and traffic.

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This collection documents the activities of the Community Economic Development Program in Baltimore, Maryland between 1960 and 1980. Materials are mainly textual and include reports, planning documents, newsletters, and Regional Planning Council files.

Scope and Contents “Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here, Where Do We Go?”: A course taught by veteran University of Baltimore faculty members and guest lecturers in both face-to-face and online formats for undergraduate and graduate students during the fall semester of 2015. The course focused on a broad-based, multi-disciplinary approach to address Baltimore’s long-standing issues regarding segregation and inequalities.The topic of section 1: How did Baltimore get to be so segregated?...

Scope and Contents The Health and Welfare Council of Maryland Records includes documents and materials created and used by the organization in their work regarding health, welfare, and other social services in Baltimore. The collection includes reports, agency files, board of directors meeting minutes, committee meeting minutes, and newsletters. Notably, the Reports series includes the organization's studies for a large variety of health and social welfare issues and groups in Baltimore. The Agency Files...

Content Description The collection contains reports and urban planning documents from the 1962 through 2018, mostly produced by Josef Nathanson. The Baltimore Metropolitan Area is the focus of these reports; however, case studies of other locations in Maryland and the United States are also represented in Nathanson's urban planning and economic development portfolio. Of particular note in the Baltimore material are records of the Community Economic Development Program, the first demonstration area in the...

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The Light Rail Collection documents the planning, public citizens' response, public hearings, and research regarding Baltimore's Light Rail system, local public transportation options, and the Northeast Corridor Transit plans. The collection includes correspondence, publications, reports, meeting minutes, research files, and newspaper clippings related to the development and construction of Baltimore's light-rail public transportation system.