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A Monumental Shift At Dilworth Park
Art & Design

A Monumental Shift At Dilworth Park

Olin’s design for Dilworth Park gives Philadelphia what it has long struggled for: a suitably grand approach to the monumental City Hall, says Hidden City co-editor Nathaniel Popkin. Here’s his review of the park, now essentially complete

On Vincent Kling, 1916–2013
Architecture

On Vincent Kling, 1916–2013

While Ed Bacon has earned his place as a household name in the lineage of Philadelphia’s built environment, an awful lot of that came filtered through the desk of Vincent G. Kling, who quietly passed away a month and a half ago. Brad Maule looks back at what he’s left Philadelphia

ThinkBike: Dutch Bike Planning Comes To Philly
Urbanism

ThinkBike: Dutch Bike Planning Comes To Philly

The key to urban bike safety is the use of parking lanes and collaboration with the police, say leading edge Dutch Bike planners, here to to explore the cycling possibilities. They’ll present tonight in a public forum at Temple University

Development

Take My Stone, Please!

Few people loved the granite that covered Dilworth Plaza except skateboarders, and now they’ll get to keep skating on some of it

Second Time’s the Charm?
Urbanism

Second Time’s the Charm?

As ground was broken on the new Dilworth Plaza, we look back at what went wrong the first time around

2012: No Predictions, Only Questions
Urbanism

2012: No Predictions, Only Questions

Here are the questions–some big, some small–we’re asking as 2012 begins

Your Favorite Public Spaces
Urbanism

Your Favorite Public Spaces

Hidden City Daily readers explain their favorite spots, from Boathouse Row to Wayne Junction Station to the prosaic Philadelphia stoop

Ghosts of City Hall Station
History

Ghosts of City Hall Station

Renovation of Dilworth Plaza will bring some improvements to City Hall Station, almost never completed due to the surprisingly poor foundation of City Hall


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