We have reached a milestone, Philadelphia! Join us in raising a glass to ten years of Hidden City

The policing of Black bodies began as soon as there was a Philadelphia. Nathaniel Popkin traces this long history and suggests how today’s protests continue and also defy it

Why a writer was allowed to use a pseudonym and what we’re going to do about the issue going forward

Hidden City connects with Redevelopment Authority director Gregory Heller on his vision for the agency’s role in Philadelphia’s growth

We ought to write our own history, say the organizers of Monument Lab, who launch their multi-week public art and civic introspection festival today in the wake of Charlottesville, Dallas, and Durham. Nathaniel Popkin catches up with Monument Lab founder Paul Farber, who asks us all, “What is an appropriate monument for Philadelphia today?”

New book examines Kensington’s radical hosiery workers and women in the labor movement from the Jazz Age to the New Deal. Nathaniel Popkin has the review

Groundbreaking exhibit of the work of Louis Kahn brings his ideas to life, says Nathaniel Popkin

Lost in the intense news cycle: major news about the at-long-last redevelopment of Penn’s Landing. Nathaniel Popkin has a look