--- title: Baltimore: How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent the City description: Thoughts on the massacre in Charleston, reviving Baltimore's vacant buildings, opening congressional research to the public and more. canonical: https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-19T16:01:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:56.939Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 19, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 19, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**How Baltimore’s vacant industrial buildings can spawn a new maker movement.**](http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/06/can-makers-spaces-revitalize-baltimore/396185/) By Anthony Flint in CityLab **2\.** [**“How is it possible…not to think that we have witnessed a lynching?”**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/charleston-and-the-age-of-obama) By David Remnick in the New Yorker **3\.** [**The in-house think tank for Congress costs taxpayers millions every year. Make its reports accessible to all.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/opinion/congressional-research-belongs-to-the-public.html) By the editorial board of the New York Times **4\.** [**This game helps citizens understand the cost — and tradeoffs — of running a city.**](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3047270/this-app-lets-you-see-the-tough-choices-needed-to-balance-your-citys-budget) By Jay Cassano in Fast Co.Exist **5\.** [**Can we afford to let Russia bail out Greece?**](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/18/russia-could-come-to-greeces-rescue-thats-bad-news-for-the-united-states-and-nato/) By David Francis in Foreign Policy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/"},"headline":"How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore","datePublished":"2015-06-19T16:01:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:56.939Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","Greece","cities","baltimore","Charleston"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3928083/maker-movement-reinvent-baltimore/","name":"How the Maker Movement Could Reinvent Baltimore"}}]}] ```