Preservation Infill Philadelphia Brings Communities Together By Design Sacred Places/Civic Spaces helps three houses of worship plan for the future by opening their doors to the neighborhood. Starr Herr-Cardillo has the ...
Art & Design North Broad’s “Lion Of Zion” Finds Strength In Design Zion Baptist Church opens its doors to a sustainable future and a North Philly revival. Rachel Hildebrandt has the ...
Development City For Families? Millennial Parents Say So If schools are a key to retaining families, what is Philadelphia to do? Quite a lot, says David Feldman, who takes us inside the parent and community-led movement to invest in ten public elementary ...
Uncategorized A Century Later, Momentum Toward A Bainbridge Green Neighbors have been lamenting the half-baked public space on Bainbridge Street in Queen Village since the early 20th century; in a few months they'll have completed a plan for its transformation. Joe Brin talks to ...
Urbanism 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 ...
Art & Design 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 ...
Urbanism 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 ...
Urbanism Planning To Begin On “Submerged” Section Of Viaduct A top-notch design team will jump-start the planning process for a park that could extend from the elevated Reading Viaduct west to the Rodin ...
