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$25 Million to Improve Climate Conditions in Baltimore
Walk through the Old Goucher neighborhood in North Baltimore, and husbands Kelly Cross and Mateusz Rozanski will tell you how several of the tree-lined streets weren’t always filled with such greenery. The couple planted hundreds of trees and took out over 100 tons of concrete in the neighborhood over the past decade.
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Rebooting Our Warming Cities
If you were to stand at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and West 24th Street in Baltimore’s Old Goucher neighborhood and travel back in time 10 years, you would probably be shocked at the transformation. Back then, pavement blanketed the neighborhood. Of the few trees growing along streets, many were sickly or misshapen.
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Detroit Officials Discuss Innovative Street View Program at GovEx
Last week, GovEx and our sister center, the Bloomberg Center for Government Innovation (BCPI), together with 21st Century Cities hosted a presentation from Detroit officials Tamara Fant and Ted Schultz, who discussed their innovative Street View program.
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New Report Underscores Why Minority-Led Banks Are Crucial To Communities of Color
Minority-led banks have seen remarkable and unprecedented growth since the pandemic. That’s good news, considering the link between the presence of such banks in a zip code and economic mobility for residents of color.
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UpSurge Baltimore Examines Tech Sector’s Promise, Diversity in New Reports
The company worked with Johns Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative to develop the first-of-its-kind report on diversity in Baltimore’s tech sector. That study accompanies another, bigger-picture snapshot of the ecosystem at present.
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Defending Baltimore Against Climate Change
A new partnership between Baltimore researchers and community organizations, led by Johns Hopkins University, has received funding to advance understanding of environmental conditions at the neighborhood level and prioritize environmental justice.
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Putting a Price on Baltimore’s Vacant Housing
A recent report from the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative finds that Baltimore’s roughly 15,000 vacant properties cost the city an estimated $210M each year in lost revenue and other costs.
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Urban Climate Lab Makes Holistic Appraisal of Resilience
The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative will integrate environmental, health and community response data to drive potential climate solutions that support equity and resilience.
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Federal Grant Aims to Make Baltimore a Laboratory for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
The Baltimore integrated lab, to be part of the 21st Century Cities Initiative at John Hopkins University and slated to receive $25 million, will involve scientists, academics, researchers, climate modeling specialists and other experts from Hopkins, Pennsylvania State University, Morgan State University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, among others.
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“Redlining Does Not End”: Talking with Rebecca Marchiel on Housing and Racism
With special thanks to Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative, I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Marchiel about After Redlining. We discussed the last half century of housing policy (and policy history) and what her research suggests regarding the possibility of achieving progressive outcomes through the politics of self-interest.
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Greater Baltimore Sees Biggest One-Year Decline in Bank Branches
It’s a large cost-saving measure that banks can implement, said Mac McComas, senior program manager for the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. You see everybody go online and I think banks really took advantage of that moment to say, “Hey, we were already doing this slow optimization of where our branches are. All…
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Bridging Baltimore’s Digital Divide: Three Advocates’ Perspectives
Forty percent of Baltimore’s 243 thousand households lack wired internet service. What would it take to get those homes connected, and to connect all of the city’s public institutions, our public housing units, our recreation centers, and our small businesses? What other cities can serve as paradigms?
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Less Than Half of Maryland Population is White, Reflecting Nation’s Increasing Diversity, Census Shows
Within the city, both the Black and white populations declined over the past decade, noted Mac McComas, senior program manager with the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. The city’s Black population shrank by nearly 15% and the white population by about 10%.
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Mac McComas: The Economic Road Ahead For Post-Industrial Cities
We begin today with a conversation about a new book that looks at the challenges facing six cites: Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St Louis. How do the challenges these urban centers have to deal with differ from those of larger cities like New York or Los Angeles? The U.S. population has increased only…
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Achieving Digital Equity in Urban and Rural Maryland
On April 9, 2021, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and Johns Hopkins University 21st Century Cities Initiative hosted a discussion on broadband infrastructure and access in urban and rural Maryland. The lack of access to quality broadband and the disparities across communities is an ongoing issue that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
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