By Ashley Hahn Market Street east of City Hall was one of Philly’s great shopping streets. After years of decline, the…
Just like in the New York City subway, sticky-note messages have started to accumulate on a tile wall in the…
Neighborhood Improvement Districts (NID) typically assess an additional fee for income-producing properties in particular areas to pay for special services. Does…
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
With millions of dollars being invested along Market Street east of City Hall, and a high incidence of pedestrians being struck…
Cities should be for everyone. Cities should make people healthy and happy. Cities should be designed to respond to human nature…
Construction is beginning at JFK Plaza/LOVE Park, but that doesn’t mean the public can’t appreciate the park’s beloved namesake sculpture. Last…
During a segment on Marty Moss-Coane’s Radio Times show in October about the Open Streets Philly campaign*, a woman called in…
It was on the road to Damascus where Saul of Tarsus, on his way to persecute Christians, had his sudden conversion…
“Once you get renewal started it spreads out like a fan and benefits much greater sections of the city…” Those words,…
As wrecking crews reduce Boyd Theatre's once-grand auditorium to rubble, Community Contributor Michael Bencik offers this rumination on the Boyd's demise…
Community Contributor Libbie Hawes, a preservationist and steering committee member of the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance, makes the…
Community Contributor Bob Bruhin sees LOVE Park as Philly's funky common ground - a perspective he's especially come to appreciate photographing…
Community Contributors Richard Voith and Peter Angelides of Econsult Solutions consider the legacy of the Commuter Rail Tunnel, which turned 30…
Think of classic Philly views and your mind will likely leap to that mile-long vista from Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture down…
I spent much of Wednesday in LOVE Park while staffers from PennPraxis, Parks and Rec, and Fairmount Park Conservancy collected ideas…
I recently heard an architect describe the old Dilworth Plaza as optimistic. Vincent Kling’s design, he said, was perhaps overly charitable…
The new Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk isn’t fancy, but it’s the sort of urban gesture that changes your view of a city.…
Philly has taken the pop-up bait hook, line and sinker. Or maybe hammock, lantern, and shipping container. We’re hopelessly into these…
Last week I hopped on an AIA-organized hardhat tour of the construction site that will soon be known as Dilworth Park,…