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Hidden City is taking a short winter vacation. We’ll be back on Tuesday, January 19

Philadelphia’s cultural heritage was served a devastating blow in 2019 with a rate of demolition like no other. Here we highlight some of the biggest losses to our built environment in our annual end-of-year list

The Hidden City team is taking a short winter vacation. We’ll be back on Tuesday, January 21

Philadelphia’s preservation crisis reached a critical high in 2018 with a record-breaking number of demolition permits approved by the City. Here we highlight some of the biggest loses to our built environment in our annual end-of-year list

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We join with hundreds of news organizations in defense of the free press, under dangerous attack by the President of the United States

The city that incubates the “most innovative public history practice in the country” can and should find a way to reinvent its city museum. We query the experts to get the conversation started