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PennPraxis and PlanPhilly win annual Henry J. Magaziner Award
PennPraxis and PlanPhilly are the recipients of the annual Henry J. Magaziner, EFAIA, Award of the AIA Philadelphia Historic Preservation Committee. The award recognizes a person or organization that has made…
Inquirer / PlanPhilly tax delinquency chat with Patrick Kerkstra and Kevin Gillen
This is the transcript from the live chat session with journalist Patrick Kerkstra and University of Pennsylvania urban economist, Kevin Gillen at noon on Wednesday. The subject was “Ravaged By Neglect,…
How we estimated the economic value and neighborhood impact of tax-delinquent properties in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly hired Kevin Gillen, a senior research consultant at the Fels School of Government, to perform an independent analysis gauging the impact of real estate tax delinquency on the property values…
Hort Academy at Abraham Lincoln High wins Sustainability Award at Flower Show
Last October, PlanPhilly graduate intern Amanda Mazie wrote about VIADUCTgreene's grassroots efforts to get the public to imagine what it would be like to transform an abandoned rail viaduct's unplanned green…
National Audubon Society and Outward Bound Philadelphia want to preserve a virtually unknown and inaccessible lake in Philadelphia by creating an educational center for conservation and leadership development
IMPORTANT public meeting tonight! In compliance with the Open Space Protection ordinance, the Parks and Recreation Commission has received a formal "Alternatives Analysis" from Audubon/Outward Bound outlining plans to build…
Letter to the Editor: Wunsch responds to Farnham
To the Editor: Jon Farnham evidently believes that historic preservation is alive and well in Philadelphia. Reading his oddly ad hominem response to my December PlanPhilly interview, I was struck by…
Welcome to a brand new PlanPhilly!
What you are looking at today is a thoroughly new, innovative PlanPhilly website that is designed to better connect the planning, design and development communities in Philadelphia through an integrated content…
Real to reel 2012
When we decided to try to present the video and photo highlights of 2012 in a short slideshow it became clear how much had happened around the built environment in Philadelphia.…
Year in Review 2012
The next 10 days will bring you PlanPhilly's Year in Review as it pertains to the the built environment in Philadelphia. As we did last year, we will head to the…
Nerd street cred: Kerkstra wins Geek Award
PlanPhilly investigative reporter Patrick Kerkstra took home top honors in the “Geek Headline of the Year" journalism category of the Philadelphia Geek Awards Friday Night at the Academy of Natural Sciences.…
Three conversations, two waterfronts, one river
As part of its behind the news event series, PlanPhilly hosted a two-hour Delaware River cruise that celebrated a historic treasure currently docked on our Central Delaware riverfront and the former…
Benjamin Franklin Parkway Action Plan gets under way
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway Action Plan became real Monday night as the first of four community meetings was held with the goal of developing a strategy for the Parkway that is…
Behind PlanPhilly: "A Man and His Ship" Book release and VIP Boat Tour
The next edition of "Behind PlanPhilly" is "one down and one to go" as we interact with a historic treasure on our Central Delaware riverfront and the PlanPhilly reporter who wrote…
You're invited to a special PlanPhilly event that will explore how Philadelphia might approach land banking and vacant property reform.
We are writing because we wanted to let you know about an exciting event we are organizing in June. The second edition of "Behind PlanPhilly" will take place on…
Parks and Rec takes roadshow to West Oak Lane
Wednesday night, in a continuing effort to bring its show on the road to different city neighborhoods, the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Commission arrived at the Simons Recreation Center in West…
Real to Reel. Looking back at 2011
We are taking a whole new approach in presenting the Year in Review as it pertains to the the built environment in Philadelphia. As we did last year, we now head…
Important message from PlanPhilly to our readers
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The massive rebuild at the National Cathedral
As a fifth-generation Washingtonian - born A.D. 1953, I was around for quite a bit of the construction of the Washington National Cathedral, which sits formidably on one of the highest…
PCPC: Saving the archives, Philadelphia 2035 update, Callowhill isues and more
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is bringing back two 30-plus years-of-service PCPC veterans to help organize and save a treasure trove of commission archival and library material that is at risk…
