Our 2018 series about Philly's changing public spaces concludes in Queen Village where a new memorial is being developed to honor…
Next up in our 2018 series about Philly's changing public spaces, Ashley Hahn checks out what’s welcoming neighborhood teens back to…
Thomas Paine Plaza, the public space outside the Municipal Services Building, is so unremarkable that you’d be forgiven for not knowing…
The Discovery Center, a new kind of environmental and leadership education center opening this month, is unlike anything else in Fairmount…
Next in our series about Philly's changing public spaces, Ashley Hahn explores the Discovery Center, a new environmental education center opening…
Next in our series about Philly's changing public spaces, Ashley Hahn checks out the Free Library’s Center for Public Life, a…
Our series about Philly's changing public spaces continues with a trip on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Ashley Hahn checks in on…
What does it mean to create a new park in a changing, sometimes contested neighborhood? Next in our series about Philly's…
First up in a series about Philly's changing public spaces, Ashley Hahn heads to LOVE Park looking for love and finds…
"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” ― Jane…
As the Schuylkill River Trail has grown southward from Center City along the eastern bank of the tidal Schuylkill, it’s gained…
Every year the parking lot in the middle of Eakins Oval is painted with a mural, setting the theme for the…
The part of Spring Garden Street below the Market-Frankford El station and I-95 is a long, unwelcoming gateway to Northern Liberties…
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” ― Jane Jacobs, The…
Cities should be for everyone. Cities should make people healthy and happy. Cities should be designed to respond to human nature…
“I’ve recently started to see public spaces in the eyes of children,” said Alexa Bosse, an architect and mother of three-year…
More than six thousand people walk across the Market Street Bridge every day, going to work, going to school, heading in…
Every great porch should have a swing, and at long last The Porch is getting its very own set. If you…
Our eyes are ever-peeled for cool sites and sights. Here's one we spotted this week: University City District is Philadelphia’s biggest…
If The Oval started three years ago as an experiment to see if an underused part of the Parkway could become…