The six neighborhoods that make up Baltimore’s Midtown

The six neighborhoods that make up Baltimore’s Midtown district contains some of the city’s finest residential architecture and many cultural and educational institutions. But the neighborhoods are in decline, rowhouses are dilapidated and there is too much traffic and too little public transit. The Midtown Community Plan, written after a two-year comprehensive planning and study effort, lays the framework for realizing the potential of the district. This is as yet only a set of recommendations, but the architecture and planning firm Medick+Associates is preparing specific design guidelines that will become part of the city’s urban renewal ordinances. A nonprofit corporation has been formed to stimulate and facilitate redevelopment and renovations.