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Global Harbors: A Waterfront Renaissance
Produced by Cari Stein and Kim Skeen
Baltimore suffers from the plagues common to urban America: Its violent crime rates and bluecollar job loss have cut the citizenry by half since the ’50s, and a cocktail of globalization, the War on Drugs and white flight keep the city down.
The city’s Inner Harbor neighborhood, the model of urban waterfront redevelopment, is an oasis in this urban Sahara. Developed by a team of visionaries in the ’60s, its museums, hotels and attractions drew 13 million people in 1996 — nearly as many tourists as the Magic Kingdom.
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