The Southwest Partnership (SWP) is a group of 13 partners striving to make “deliberate, positive changes†in the SWP area, which includes the neighborhoods of Barre Circle, Pigtown, Franklin Square, Hollins Market, Mount Clare, Poppleton, and Union Square. Workforce development is an important aspect of any urban area, and in order to meet SWP’s vision […]
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Anchor W, Baltimore
The Southwest Partnership neighborhoods located adjacent to downtown Baltimore, are Barre Circle, Franklin Square, Hollins Roundhouse, Mount Clare, Pigtown, Poppleton, and Union Square. Neighborhoods in Southwest Baltimore have a proud legacy of industrial enterprise. In the middle of the 20th century, dozens of factories, warehouses, and shops near Carroll Park employed thousands of West Baltimore […]
Fulton South Community Park Project
Fulton South is an 77 acre site owned by Howard County at the intersection of Route 29 and Rocky Gorge Reservoir. Howard County plans to create a community park at the Fulton South site. The Fulton South Conceptual Plan is the result of a Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) collaboration between Howard County […]
Columbia, Maryland: Residential Perspectives on the Community’s 50th Birthday
Planned communities are one way that people have attempted to influence land use patterns and living situations to accommodate specific sociocultural, economic, and environmental needs and desires from the very start of settlement. Columbia, Maryland, a planned community, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017. At its beginning, James Rouse and his planning team used […]
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Exploring Police Call Incidents in Howard County
What are spatial patterns of police call incidents, especially hate bias and hit & run incidents in Howard County? Is there a relationship between establishments with liquor license and these crimes? […]
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Howard County GIS Analysis: Thefts and Assaults
Are thefts and assaults more likely to occur in specific areas in Howard County? […]
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City of Frederick Carbon Footprint and Energy Profile
As Maryland’s second largest city, it is imperative that the City of Frederick being tracking and managing its role in contributing to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). This report is the City’s first greenhouse gas inventory of local government operations and covers the year 2013. With the data sources, methodology, findings, and recommendations collected or […]
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Sustainable Frederick
During the academic year and the summer, master’s students in the University of Maryland’s Urban Studies and Planning Program (URSP) are able to fulfil their requirement for a community planning studio. In the studio, students conduct research on a key planning issue or issues in a given study area, based on input from public officials, […]
Flooding Hazard in Howard County: Causes and Green Infrastructure Solutions
Innovation-Led Economic Development in Howard County Maryland Using Cluster Analysis, Network Analysis and Spatial Analysis to Identify Economic Development Strategies
Identifying and fostering the growth of innovative companies has long been a focus of economic development. However, traditional methods of economic analysis often fail to identify sources of innovative growth because they are not designed to do so. Innovation is by definition ever-evolving and defies methods that focus on slow growth and historic trends. By […]