Picking up on signs: (de)sign controls, visual preferences, digital billboards, and wayfinding

Picking up on signs: (de)sign controls, visual preferences, digital billboards, and wayfinding

Talk about signage is all the rage. DAG is meeting Thursday about sign design and regulations, the former ZCC wants your “visual preferences,” and stories about Market East’s first digital signs and Philly’s wayfinding signs have been in the news this week.

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Will zoning reform really shift City Council’s land use powers?

Will zoning reform really shift City Council’s land use powers?

City Council is likely to approve a new zoning code on December 15. Is Council being selfless as zoning reform reduces its power or will it still grip the reins of the land use process?

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Big zoning reform hearing, vacant school hazards, Manton Street park reclaimed and sold, Dilworth’s pedestrian problem

Big zoning reform hearing, vacant school hazards, Manton Street park reclaimed and sold, Dilworth’s pedestrian problem
  • Zoning Reform Council hearing today
  • Closed schools are unsafe eyesores, says City Controller
  • Manton Street Park restored by neighbors, sold by city
  • Dilworth Plaza fencing leaves no room for pedestrians
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    December 5-9: King Kong, Spring Garden Street Greenway design workshop, Zoning vote, City Hall tree lighting, Trumbauer book talk

    December 5-9: King Kong, Spring Garden Street Greenway design workshop, Zoning vote, City Hall tree lighting, Trumbauer book talk
  • Monday: Architecture in Film: King Kong @ Center for Architecture
  • Tuesday: Spring Garden Street Greenway Community Design Workshop @ German Society of Pennsylvania
  • Wednesday: New Zoning Code vote @ City Council
  • Wednesday: City Hall Tree Lighting @ LOVE Park
  • Wednesday: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer @ The Athenaeum
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    Zoning Matters: City Council should see through zoning reform process, not subvert it

    Zoning Matters: City Council should see through zoning reform process, not subvert it

    Architect Kiki Bolender calls City Council onto the mat over the zoning code reform in a Daily News opinion piece this week, calling for Council to respect the Zoning Code Commission’s four-year process by seeing it through. Philly deserves it.

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    ZCC finished, Stanton school community fights, City Hall’s living sculptures, revised fracking rules

    ZCC finished, Stanton school community fights, City Hall’s living sculptures, revised fracking rules
  • ZCC is kaput, sends zoning reform to council
  • E. M. Stanton school could close, but parents vow to fight
  • Considering City Hall’s courtyard
  • Fracking in the Delaware River Basin grows closer
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    Final zoning code report released, Dilworth and Occupy, I-95 construction, and Mayor Nutter round 2

    Final zoning code report released, Dilworth and Occupy, I-95 construction, and Mayor Nutter round 2
  • Zoning Code Commission issues final code, will vote today
  • Dilworth Plaza redesign
  • I-95 construction update
  • Nutter’s second term priorities; meet the new City Council
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    November 7-11: Vote, TEDxPhilly, ZCC final meeting, Craft Show, Veterans Day

    November 7-11: Vote, TEDxPhilly, ZCC final meeting, Craft Show, Veterans Day
  • Tuesday: Election Day; TEDxPhilly returns
  • Wednesday: ZCC meeting
  • Thursday: PMA Craft Show opens
  • Friday: Veterans Day @ National Constitution Center
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    Boot & Saddle rides again, Council plays ZCC, seven deadly trends, Philly papers seeking new home, Marvelous Marvine

    Boot & Saddle rides again, Council plays ZCC, seven deadly trends, Philly papers seeking new home, Marvelous Marvine
  • New life for Boot & Saddle
  • Council could pass its own version of zoning code
  • Seven deadly trends shaping our city
  • 400 N. Broad – sale final
  • Marvelous Marvine wins Clean Blocks Contest
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    Manayunk Bridge turns viaduct park, Zoning reform moves, Peale portrait sells and his early gallery, Christmas Village moves

    Manayunk Bridge turns viaduct park, Zoning reform moves, Peale portrait sells and his early gallery, Christmas Village moves
  • Manayunk Bridge becoming linear park
  • City Council votes to send zoning reform recommendations back to commission for retooling
  • Peale portrait sold from History Museum to Art Museum
  • Pondering the Long Room, upstairs at Independence Hall
  • Christmas Village will be in LOVE Park, not Dilworth Plaza
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