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Your Introduction to PlanPhilly

The overall news mission of PlanPhilly is to cover the built environment in Philadelphia in a way that goes beyond preaching to the converted and instead, best demonstrates to the average citizen how decisions in the public realm impact their lives and their neighborhoods. As a result of this “ear to the ground” approach, PlanPhilly not only breaks news about the built environment it is also the go-to place for the public to learn about upcoming meetings and discussions where they can have their say. The site is organized around news, opinion, neighborhoods, events, issues and participation.

News

The main home page lets us feature news content and commentary and opinion articles from beats covering the city’s zoning reform commission, the controversial siting of casinos in the city, historic preservation, the planning commission, the green movement and transportation.

Neighborhoods

PlanPhilly has compiled information on Philadelphia’s neighborhoods, and associated it with our local news stories, video, image galleries and events to help to connect you to the latest hyper-local info near you. This section is not yet comprehensive, but we hope that it provides a useful overview.  You can help us add to this by letting us know if:

  • there’s news or a significant point of interest related to planning, design or development in any neighborhood that is missing
  • a whole neighborhood is missing, because, even in a city as old as Philadelphia, the landscape is always changing
  • you have contact information for a local civic group, friends-group, or community development corporation
  • you’d like to file a citizen journalist report from your neighborhood.

Email us at feedback@planphilly.com. with any of the above information.

Events

PlanPhilly attempts to aggregate all planning and design related event coverage in the region. If you have an event that you want posted please contact us at mgolas@design.upenn.edu

Issues

PlanPhilly provides links to issues pages related to the built environment in Philadelphia. On these pages, PlanPhilly will provide links to news stories, videos, event listings and opinion posts associated with Bicycling, Casinos, Design, Development, Environment & Sustainability, Government, History & Archaeology, Infrastructure, Parks & Recreation, Planning, Preservation, Public Space, Riverfronts & Waterfronts, Safety & Security, Technology, Traffic & Transportation, Vacant Property and Zoning.

Participate

Beginning today, PlanPhilly will make it possible for individuals and groups to add content to pages created to allow them to express opinion, provide information about ongoing efforts, and build constituency for their organizations. At the core of the Participate section is the ability for individuals to ‘raise their hand’ and share a perspective or initiate a campaign, but only as a recognizable person. This person could be an individual, a member of a group, a leader or spokesperson of a group or an elected official or decision-maker, or a news source.

To get started with Participate, we hope you'll have a look at the diverse content already available:
Join Featured Contributors like the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, SCRUB, Next Great City, AIA Philadelphia and more: http://planphilly.com/participate/authors


Our Participate Groups are already having valuable conversations about the Public Realm, Zoning Reform and more:http://planphilly.com/participate/groups
Find the issues that are most important to you and start your own conversations: http://planphilly.com/participate/issues

Posting Comments

All guests can post comments to our site. When you are reading an article, be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom. There is the 'Add Comment' link for posting your thoughts on the article right then while you read it.

Participant Help

  • Become a Participant : Begin the process to become a PlanPhilly Participant.
  • Login : To be able to login, you must first have access to a PlanPhilly visitor account.
  • Edit Profile : Once you login, click on the My Account link to access your profile. Then click on the edit tab to begin to modify your account. Click on Profile to access information stored in you PlanPhilly Account profile. Note: You must have a visitor account before you can update your profile. Apply to become a Participant to get your PlanPhilly visitor account.
  • Post Article : once you have a Participation account, you can post articles to PlanPhilly. When successfully logged into PlanPhilly you will see an Administration Navigation across the top of your screen. To Add an article, click on the 'Content Management' section. In this section is the 'Create Content' page. Click on Article to create a new article to post on PlanPhilly. Fill in the form to post your article, when complete, Save it and the article will appear in our Participation section. It's that easy.
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