ABSTRACT
The homes of the Baltimore Middle East community surrounding the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital appeared hauntingly vacant, and the author wondered what had happened to the families that had dwelt in the square blocks. The author focuses on the physical form of the areas of relocation, the areas that would be a new frontier for those evacuated from a unique and vernacular geography. It could easily be hypothesized that the move from row house to detached structures or garden apartments, ironically named the Dutch Village, where some of the residents of this particular community ended up, was a major change in lifestyle, impacting drastically social inter action. The main difference from the old to new environments was not only the difference in density and the configuration of social space, but how blatantly difficult the task of navigating the streets and accessing the public transit service would be.
