In The Silence Of Mt. Sinai
Shadowbat takes us inside the empty corridors of Mt. Sinai Hospital, whose developers report some progress toward eventual reuse > more
From A Corner of Center City, The Source Of Light
John Vidumsky discovers the people and the places behind the birth of electric light in America--at the heart of it the inimitable John Wanamaker and a brilliant inventor named Charles Brush whose power station, the first in Philadelphia, is still in use today > more
The Piazza at Schmidt’s as Red Herring
A call for better exemplars in urbanism than the Piazza, how to reuse a grain elevator, "Visions of Arcadia" at the PMA, and condos proposed for Society Hill > more
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