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Health & the City Bus Tour of Baltimore: 1.30 – 4.00 pm
Registration required.
The bus tour will trace sites and stories of urban change in Baltimore over the last forty years — including episodes in highway construction and its discontents; neighborhood demolition and revitalization; and continuing attempts at economic development.
The tour will start at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), and head north to the New EastSide project area (EBDI). We’ll swing by the American Brewery on Gay Street before heading west on North Avenue, past traces of 1968 riots to Pennsylvania Avenue. From there, we’ll move south, observing new housing as well as “the best current piece of public art,” and on into Sandtown. Leaving Sandtown, we’ll travel south, making a stop at bridge over Route 40 to talk about highway construction in the 1960s, and continuing down to the University of Maryland biotech park, taking in Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd as "moat" (UMaryland & MLK). Time permitting, we’ll take a quick dip into “SoWeBo” (B&O Railroad) , moving onward to summit either Federal Hill or Tide Point deck, where we’ll discuss development around the Inner Harbor (Harbor East). We’ll wrap up the tour with a trip to Fells Point and a stop at Birds of a Feather, finishing back at the School.