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 […]
Program: Partnership for Action Learning
Assault Incidents in Howard County, Maryland
Are there any spatial patterns of assaults in Howard County? Are there any clusters, hotspots or outliers? […]
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Signage Safety: Road Signs, Pedestrian Crossing Conditions, and Hit & Run Police Calls in Howard County, Maryland
How do road signage and pedestrian crossing conditions affect the prevalence of hit & run police calls in Howard County, Maryland? More specifically, do signs encouraging driver safety and awareness reduce hit & run calls? Do marked pedestrian crossing points and lower speed limits reduce hit & run calls? […]
GIS Analysis of Crime in Howard County, Maryland: Destruction of Properties and Break-in
Is there any spatial pattern of destruction of properties and break-ins in Howard County? Are those crime incidents are clustered in Howard County? […]
Homelessness in Howard County
The ten undergraduate students in this government and policy class were asked to examine homelessness in Howard County as part of the PALS program. Each of them researched the extent of the problem, the services in place to address it, how homelessness is addressed in comparable U.S. counties, and proposals that Howard County could adapt. […]
Housing Opportunity in Southwest Baltimore
The housing group focused on a variety of factors or variables to assess housing issues in the Southwest Partnership neighborhoods. Our goal was to identify areas of lowest and highest housing opportunity in the Partnership area by analyzing variables related to the characteristics and quality of housing. These variables included housing conditions, year built, housing […]
Southwest Partnership Project Economic Development Team
The Southwest Partnership has made significant progress in exploring the existing status of commercial development in their seven neighborhoods. This project will support this work using geospatial analysis and visualization to further the Southwest Partnership’s economic development goals. Data provided by the Southwest Partnership on existing businesses was geocoded and represented on a map of […]
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Healthy and Safe Neighborhoods
For this project the Healthy and Safe Neighborhoods group worked with Baltimore’s Southwest Partnership (SWP) to create mapping resources for their seven partnering neighborhoods. The primary focus was to investigate the health and safety of Southwest Baltimore’s current neighborhood using the most recent ACS (American Community Survey) and Census Data as well as open source […]
Job Accessibility in Southwest Baltimore
Job accessibility is a question of how many jobs are available in a given area, and whether or not area residents are physically able to get to them via car, transit, or other modes of transportation. In addition, it is a question of whether these jobs are a “good fit†for the residents who have […]