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Building Stories: the rowhouse
- Friday, April 15, 2016
- By Ashley Hahn
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- 310 Camac Street, Philadelphia PA
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For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us to their favorite underappreciated or misunderstood buildings in Philadelphia, and explain…
Healthy Rowhouse Project wants to help repair 5,000 homes per year
- Thursday, December 17, 2015
- By Jared Brey
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A local group called the Healthy Rowhouse Project announced on Wednesday that it has collected nearly $1 million in grants that it plans to dedicate to protecting Philadelphia’s most important assets:…
Toward a safe and thriving city
- Friday, May 15, 2015
- By Kiki Bolender
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The next mayoral administration will inherit a revamped and strengthened planning and development environment, but architect and Design Advocacy Group Chair Kiki Bolender argues the work is only half done. In…
Housing policy in Philadelphia: We can do better
- Wednesday, March 18, 2015
- By Kiki Bolender
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In this op-ed architect and Design Advocacy Group chair Kiki Bolender makes the case for rowhouse preservation programs as a way to improve resident health and well-being while stabilizing rowhouse blocks.…
Streetviews: Q&A with Kiki Bolender, architect and Design Advocacy Group chair
- Friday, March 6, 2015
- By Ashley Hahn
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We continue our Streetviews video series with architect Kiki Bolender, talking about rowhouse strength, the need to invest in democratic spaces like parks and libraries, the woeful pettiness of our politics,…
Clarke modifies charter proposal, seeks Council approval of new cabinet appointee
- Monday, February 16, 2015
- By Jared Brey
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- City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
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A modified version of City Council President Darrell Clarke’s proposal to amend the city charter and create a cabinet-level Department of Planning and Development will go before the Council’s Committee on…
Design Advocacy Group gets funding to focus on rowhouse preservation
- Thursday, November 6, 2014
- By Ashley Hahn
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For years Philadelphia has tried to build its way out of our affordable housing problem through new construction. But a smarter solution may be right under our noses: Rowhouse preservation. The…
Proposed casinos to get report card from Design Advocacy Group
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- By Kellie Patrick Gates
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The six Philadelphia casino proposals are about to get a report card from an organization of Philadelphia architects, urban planners and other design professionals. According to an analysis by the Philadelphia…
Demolition for Church of the Assumption | Preventing demo of Bunting House | Wilde Yarn Mill residential reuse | Council shouldn't diminish, politicize community role in zoning
- Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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Good morning Streeters. Today promises to be even more spring-like than yesterday, so get out and enjoy the day before it rains tonight and winter’s chill returns. The Church of the…
A swell of protest over proposed zoning code amendments
- Tuesday, November 13, 2012
- By Jared Brey
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During public hearings on the new zoning code in City Council last fall, a few witnesses sought to quell some Councilmembers’ misgivings about the new code by reminding them that, should…
DAGchair: Meeting of June 7, 2012
- Friday, July 20, 2012
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DAGchair: Meeting of June 7, 2012 This is an anecdotal account of the last meeting written by the chair, to be published each month. These notes are intended to update people…
DAGchair: Meeting of May 3, 2012
- Thursday, June 7, 2012
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This is an anecdotal account of the last meeting written by the chair, to be published each month. These notes are intended to update people who were not able to attend…
The First Ten Years of the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia [DAGspace]
- Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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The First Ten Years of the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia By Elise Vider In late 2001, a group of six Philadelphia architects, planners, and design junkies sat down to…
Zoning Matters: City Council should see through zoning reform process, not subvert it
- Tuesday, November 15, 2011
- By Ashley Hahn
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In a sharp opinion piece in Monday’s Daily News, Architect Kiki Bolender takes City Council to task for introducing its own version of the zoning code, and in so doing,…
The Buzz: Clean and Green on Germantown Ave | Chinatown Tower | President's House Mess | Zoning Debate
- Monday, September 26, 2011
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Newsworks reports that the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District has been hard at work keeping it's piece of Germantown Avenue clean, green, and well-lit, but the city has been slower to…
Public gets look at Dilworth Plaza redo plan
- Wednesday, September 23, 2009
- By Kellie Patrick Gates
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