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Dr. John A. Sparks writes about the legacy at the Kelo Supreme Court case after Pfizer announced it will be leaving its large research campus in New London, Connecticut, the expansion of which sparked the the debate in the first place.
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Cautionary tale in Chestnut Hill tells us that when voices of Community are disregarded, developmental decisions will be more subject to individual and political influences, which would most likely be more unpredictable and arbitrary than community consensus.
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The concept behind the "Built" column, which runs in the Daily News, in the author's own words:
"So architecture critics shouldn't be arbiters of taste, at least not in a democracy and certainly not on the pages of the Daily News. Architecture critics should be interrogators of taste, raising subjects and asking questions that provoke people to become thoughtful critics of their buildings. I want Built to start conversations, not end them."
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No matter how many throw rugs and designer tchotchkes you buy, if you have a ratty couch, your living room will always look like a dump. The same for holds true for Philly and its bus shelters. A transit shelter tagged with graffiti and bristling with ads will overshadow any other street amenity and be a magnet for crime. But that's the current state of most of the city's 250-some transit shelters, which are showing both their age and much contempt.
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Read Bruce Schimmel's City Paper column, "Decorating in the Dark." It's about the city's evolving plans to redesign our on-street furniture – which includes bus shelters, kiosks, bike racks, etc.
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Tonight, citizens get a chance to interview five finalists contending to create a master plan for the central Delaware waterfront.
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A plan to restore trolley service along East Market Street to link Center City with the Delaware River waterfront seems problematic on several fronts.
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Led by Penn Praxis and funded by the William Penn Foundation, the Central Delaware Riverfront visioning process engaged more than 6,000 Philadelphians in the creation of an action plan for the riverfront that would extend Philadelphia's intimate fabric of human-scaled streets and parks across the chasm of I-95 to the largely suburban geography of the automobile-scarred central Delaware.
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Things are starting to move along the Central Delaware - literally.
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PennPraxis Executive Director Harris Steinberg asks why the Delaware River Port Authority is moving ahead with its waterfront transit proposal before the master plan for the Central Delaware has been conducted.
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An exerpt from Hughes' new column "Built" in the Daily News: "It's been 100 years since anyone walked down the streets of Philadelphia and thought, This is the future. But Philadelphians are now building a city for the future using the assets we've inherited, mixed with the ideas we've pioneered. Built will bring you those stories."
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