Let’s bring urban vitality back to the Inner Harbor
“Yes” on Question F Let’s bring urban vitality back to the Inner Harbor Evans Paull Because I wrote the book (Stop the Road, Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars) that celebrated the victory of the activists over the establishment and stopped three destructive highways, many folks assume that I must be siding with […]
Orioles Baseball: The Case of the Incredible Disappearing Rally
Explaining the disappointing end of the Orioles 2024 season Empty seats and no rallies – why the Orioles and baseball both need to change (photo credit: Kevin Richardson, Sun Staff) As the curtain comes down on the 2024 season, we are left with two bitter memories: a powerful offensive team unable to muster more than […]
Support the Bernard L. Berkowitz Memorial Fund
For city boosters, planners, and anyone drawn to a good cause: an annual student award fund has been established at UMBC to commemorate the life and achievements of Bernard L. Berkowitz. Bernie was a leader of Baltimore economic and community development affairs for three decades. Best remembered for his stint as President of the Baltimore […]
New Hope for Leakin Park
Robert Giles and the incredible legacy of the road planning consultants that undermined their clients There is new hope for long-neglected but stunningly beautiful Leakin Park: a bill passed by the 2024 Maryland General Assembly that authorizes a study and community input process that will examine new ways to manage the park under a city-state […]
Baltimore History Revealed in Unflinching Detail
Fell’s Point, the Clipper ships and slavery; Sharp-Leadenhall Freedmen the Quakers, and Elisha Tyson. Stop the Road fills in many gaps in Baltimore’s history, documenting the stunning events that saved the historic waterfront but left behind the Highway to Nowhere as the most visible reminder of the City’s unfair treatment of its African American population. […]
Awards and Recognition
Figure 1- Evans Paull, receiving the Baltimore Heritage award, October 19, 2023, Open Works. Johns Hopkins, Executive Director, Baltimore Heritage commented “E. Evans Paull’s Stop the Road tells the David versus Goliath story of how a few individuals saved our waterfront and the core of our city from destruction by highway planners. Moreover, the power […]
The Anatomy of a Bad Decision
Figure 1. Concept plan for the Franklin-Mulberry corridor, Urban Design Concept Associates, 1970 Commentary by E. Evans Paull June 24, 1973 (50 years ago this week), is a date that should be marked on every civic leader’s calendar as a cautionary tale for decision-making gone awry. That is the day that the infamous Highway to […]
The African American Heroes of Baltimore’s Road Wars
Book excerpts, Stop the Road, Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars, E. Evans Paull Joe Wiles (“the Human Obstacle”) and Mary Rosemond, leaders of Rosemont’s successful resistance AUTHOR’S NOTE—When the City decided (in 1970) to bypass Rosemont, routing I-70 around this solid Middle Class African American community, it was a phenomenal win for […]
Federal Hill and the Inner Harbor – the Conquistadors of Concrete vs. the Platitudeness Planners
Map shows the Harbor crossing at Federal Hill, in effect 1961 to 1973. Excerpt from Stop the Road: “Federal Hill and the Inner Harbor – the Conquistadors of Concrete vs. the Platitudeness Planners*” The Road Wars biggest “untold story” Oddly, the battle over the location of the harbor crossing (Federal Hill vs. Ft. McHenry) is […]