What Baltimore could learn from other city waterfront transformations

Baltimore is not alone. Pretty much every city on the water has grappled with how to best use the land near the lakes, rivers and harbors that were often the original reason for their creation. The stakes are particularly high in postindustrial cities like Baltimore that have realized the immense value of turning former sites of industry into public space for everyone, said Mac McComas, the senior program manager of the 21st Century Cities initiative at Johns Hopkins University.