Garlic Knot Cities

The centers of these legacy cities are dense and satisfying. The suburbs are doing fine. But what are the neighborhoods in between?

I spent part of last week in Baltimore – the part that everybody likes to go to. I visited the Baltimore Banner, located in a renovated warehouse in the Inner Harbor, stayed at a hotel across the street from Camden Yards, and had a family lunch celebration (my niece graduated from high school) at a fancy steakhouse back in the Inner Harbor.