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Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased the Lenape From Local History
History

Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased the Lenape From Local History

In this poignant essay Dan Shurley looks at the mistreatment of the Lenape in Pennsylvania and how historic Philadelphia still manages to misrepresent and largely ignore the city’s native people

With Ice And Coal Building’s Murals Gone, Is Italian Market Development Coming?
Development

With Ice And Coal Building’s Murals Gone, Is Italian Market Development Coming?

The community mural wall at 9th and Ellsworth is all but a gray-washed memory today. A barrier for the empty lot where the Ice And Coal building once stood, it stands a fine example of artists pitching it to tackle urban blight. Daniel Shurley takes us down to South 9th Street, where plans for a Business Improvement District, and possibly a new, creative life for the wall, are currently in the works

In Kensington, Developers & Architects Confront The El
Architecture

In Kensington, Developers & Architects Confront The El

For the first time in decades, developers are building under the El. But how will they handle the many constraints–and the stigma of living “under the El?” Dan Shurley reviews a series of rather uneven new projects

Architecture

In West Philly, Redemption For A Strip Mall

Our pages are filled with stories of churches being demolished and replaced with prosaic architecture. But sometimes the process reverses. In West Philly, the University City Chinese Christian Church has transformed a languishing unfinished strip mall with subtly elegant modern architecture

Theater Of The Undead
Development

Theater Of The Undead

With the official reopening of the Roxy Theater scheduled for November 15, Philadelphia Film Festival-goers got a glimpse this weekend of the work-in-progress. Contributor Daniel Shurley examines the project–and what it means for the future of cinema in Center City


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