Visions for a Sustainable City:
Owings Mills, MD

background:

Although they were the loci of the majority of urban growth during the last 15 years[2], edge cities generally have no coherent urban form and are defined more than anything else by highways and parking lots.

Aerial View of Owings Mills Town Center

They contain many of the functions and aspects of a city such as living, working, shopping, even occasionally, civic activities, but there is no hint of the principle, so key to the definition of the traditional American city or town, of the street as a pedestrian public space.

Red Run Blvd. in Owings Mills; note the enormous size of the street and lack of sidewalks.

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