Only Temporary?
All across the city, we've come to rely on temporary interventions. Is this merely an honest approach or evidence of shrunken expectations? > more
Discounts For Hidden City Members As Festival Tickets Go On Sale
Unlimited Festival access to nine sites from May 23-June 30 is only $70--but even less--$50--for Hidden City members > more
Ed Bacon, In Perspective
In Gregory Heller's just released book, the legendary city planner is a man of contradictions. Nathaniel Popkin reviews Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, the first comprehensive Bacon bio > more
Drexel Acquires Firestone Parcel At 32nd & Market
Long sought parcel helps University connect to envisioned "innovation neighborhood" and achieve master plan goals for mixed use development and street life > more
The Possible City, 1838
At the Painted Bride starting tomorrow a PIFA production that explores the urgent lives of white and African-American women who formed the Female Anti-Slavery Society and whose work exploded in the night of May 17, 1838, when Pennsylvania Hall at Sixth and Arch was burned by a violent mob > more
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