Reactivate The City Branch With A Campus Green Phase 1 of reimagining the Reading Viaduct into a rail park is finally beginning to materialize while plans for the City Branch "cut" of the abandoned line remain at a firm standstill. Jeffery Markovitz thinks…
Plan For City Branch Rail Park Emerges The long awaited vision for turning the City Branch into a park connecting the Reading Viaduct and Fairmount Park will be released this week. It calls for a muscular new civic space at Broad Street…
Along The City Branch, The Forgotten Norris Locomotive Works The submerged City Branch railroad--the subject of so much debate today--was not only one of the earliest rail lines in the US, it was also the place where train engine technology was developed and massive…
Questions, Possibilities As City Branch Park Planning Advances Design for a proposed park along the submerged City Branch railroad is pushing "continuity and connectivity," along with a bold entrance in front of the School District headquarters on North Broad Street. We have insight…
Origins Of The City Branch? Canal, Natural & Man-Made How did the City Branch subway rail line come to be located where along this corridor anyway? The answer, according to Harry K's Philadelphia Encyclopedia, lies in natural history: it connects the narrowest points between…
What To Do With The City Branch: Return It To Transit As Light Rail With planning to begin on the underground City Branch railroad connecting to the Reading Viaduct, we asked our contributor Stephen Stofka to provide an alternate vision for light rail extending from the heart of Center…
What To Do With The City Branch: Make It Part Of A 3 Mile Linear Park and Non-Motorized Transitway With planning to begin on the underground City Branch railroad connecting to the Reading Viaduct, we asked Paul vanMeter of ViaductGreene to present his vision for turning the railbed into a linear park--a search for…
Philip H. Johnson: The Architect That Swindled the City The architecture of Philip H. Johnson is as deeply ingrained in our cityscape as his hands were in the City's coffers at the turn of the 20th century. Discover how the brother-in-law of a political…
