Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
urban design; Baltimore; ecological planning; waterfront development
Abstract
This essay considers the growth of the partnership between David Wallace and Ian McHarg into one of the nation’s dominant urban design and environmental planning firms. It focuses on the firm’s undertaking in the Greater Baltimore region in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s. With the benefit of fifty years of hindsight it looks at the successes and failures of their plans for Charles Center, the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys, and the Inner Harbor. Surprisingly, prize-winning innovations praised in one generation came to be judged as the design flaws of the next. Less surprisingly, their plans to “design with nature” sometimes were used by their clients to promote racial and economic segregation.
Disciplines
Law | Legal History | Physical and Environmental Geography | Urban Studies and Planning
Digital Commons Citation
Power, Garrett, "Wallace-McHarg’s Plans for Greater Baltimore" (2011). Legal History Publications. 26.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mlh_pubs/26
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