Following Spike Lee’s soliloquy on it in February, gentrification has a renewed place in the public discourse. That includes in Germantown, where last Saturday, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Alan Greenberger moderated a panel discussion the topic. Theresa Everline weighs the concerns voiced there and examines how real the threat of gentrification is in the Northwest neighborhood

The green light’s been given to the demolition of two brownstones on the city’s Historic Register at 38th & Chestnut. Chris Mote reports that the homes, once the parish house to the adjacent Episcopal Cathedral, will be replaced by a 25-story apartment tower whose profits will go toward a complete restoration of the church and provide new facilities for the Diocese

  With a star studded lineup, Next City will this evening bring Ed Bacon back to the fore with a discussion titled “Revisiting Ed Bacon’s Legacy and the Future of Planning in Philly.” Featuring Greg Heller, whose biography Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia Nathaniel Popkin reviewed for Hidden City, and […]

Forget the colonial city or the 19th century city, what happened to the muscular city of the mid-20th century?

A lament for the lost buildings of the year, and a reckoning for a city that isn’t quite serious enough