Benjamin GroffWhat’s the Real Cost of a Car in Baltimore City?And how does it compare apples-to-apples to multi-modal travel using any mode but a personal automobile?Nov 3, 2016Nov 3, 2016
Benjamin GroffLow Density Development Undermines Infrastructure Funding — Even When Property Values are Very HighFor many years lower density neighborhoods have been associated with higher quality of life — this was American Dream of the Baby Boomer…Oct 31, 2016Oct 31, 2016
Benjamin GroffBaltimoreLink woes show need to leverage Baltimore’s Corridors and CentersAn average transit commute on Baltimore’s MTA bus system takes 52 minutes, door-to-door. Under the new BaltimoreLink bus reorganization…Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016
Benjamin GroffHow urban is Baltimore compared to other U.S. cities?If someone proposes a new building or transit line in your Baltimore neighborhood, someone else will inevitably say it shouldn’t be done…Jul 26, 2016Jul 26, 2016
Benjamin GroffExpanding Access with Better TransitTwo of Ideal City’s goals are to articulate the benefits of urbanism and to promote a regional vision of urbanism.Apr 15, 2016Apr 15, 2016
Benjamin GroffUnintended Consequences: Federal Housing Finance Still Undermines Urbanism after 80+ YearsThere has been fairly broad coverage recently of a report called “The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance”, published by the…Mar 15, 2016Mar 15, 2016
Benjamin GroffFulton AvenueThe history of how cars took over the city is generally accepted, but it’s also a conqueror’s history — the cars won over spaces for…Jan 5, 2016Jan 5, 2016
Benjamin GroffTHE B-LINK PLAN — A First LookGovernor Hogan’s bus route reorganization is not the long-term investment in capital infrastructure that the city desperately needs, but…Oct 23, 2015Oct 23, 2015
Benjamin GroffBALTIMORE ACCESSIBILITY CORRIDORSBaltimore City has a number of important accessibility corridors along which development has spread from the central business district…Oct 22, 2015Oct 22, 2015
