Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, November 27, 2009

You are always in my heart mural "graffiti" on a vacant rowhouse adjacent to E. Lafayette Street, Baltimore

I find it amazing that within a few blocks of Penn Station, Baltimore's train station providing Amtrak and MARC commuter passenger rail service, that there are hundreds of vacant rowhouse buildings, and of course, many empty lots where rowhouses once stood.

I think the mural refers to someone who might have once lived in the house.

A couple blocks away from here on E. Lanvale Street is another mural painted with the names of people in the neighborhood who have either died of natural causes or had been murdered. I'm not sure which. There are more than 20 names/nicknames on the mural.

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