ABSTRACT

This chapter documents the formation of the model and examines its nature. It also sketches its impact on thinking about the transformation of the redundant physical and economic spaces of port and industrial cities throughout the world. In a more specific sense, the chapter shows how those associated with the invention of the model played a direct role in spreading this model. It also explores that how far the Baltimore model has become synthesised into the reservoir of global planning ideas and practice. The most significant private development in Baltimore was the Inner Harbour's major single draw, the Harbour place festival marketplace. It was developed by the well known and widely respected Baltimore developer, James Rouse. One consequence was to push Enterprise Development Company (EDC) increasingly to seek opportunities in big cities outside the United States, especially where public funds were still available properly to prime the pump for development.