A threatened revival, and Smart Growth Round II
News round-up ...
The New York Times reports today in a story about Baltimore that "the fallout from the housing downturn is already showing up as a setback in this struggling city’s effort to reinvent itself as a robust commercial center, one in which a spruced up and rebuilt downtown has attracted new residents, particularly young people, as well as more office workers."
And former Gov. Parris N. Glendening, the "architect" of the Smart Growth law in Maryland, speaks up for it after a report suggested it hasn't had much impact on sprawl, Tim Wheeler reports today.






