Development Navy Yard Gears Up For Growth With New Power Plant The Navy Yard, home to one of the nation's largest private microgrids, prepares for the future with a new energy plant. Michael Bixler ...
Development In Age Of Trump, Philly Has Legal & Political Power To Resist: Here’s How Philadelphia's future under President-Elect Trump "depends on the exercise of political power in Washington," says Richard Schragger, the author of City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age, in an interview with Nathaniel ...
Urbanism Ed On Ed: Hidden City Chats With Rendell, Set To Receive Bacon Prize Former Mayor and Governor Ed Rendell will on Tuesday receive the 2014 Edmund N. Bacon Prize, given annually to someone for their accomplishments in planning, development, design, and community improvements. Rendell's advocacy and investment in ...
Urbanism Cutler On State Transit Funding, Bike Share & The Future In just five years, the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities, under Rina Cutler, has assembled an impressive list of civic accomplishments. But with significant transportation funding in political limbo, SEPTA's fare system still working ...
History Superstructure At 33rd In Thirds Little fanfare accompanies the short trek between Fairmount Park's East Park and Lemon Hill sections, but under your feet (or tires), the 33rd Street superstructure, including an unusual brick skew arch tunnel, is still doing ...
Art & Design Saturday’s Party For The Viaduct Underscores Progress, Exposes Challenges With public support building, Saturday's Rally for the Rail Park block party culminates a year of progress toward a Reading Viaduct Park. Key questions linger, however, as Nathaniel Popkin ...
Art & Design Only Temporary? All across the city, we've come to rely on temporary interventions. Is this merely an honest approach or evidence of shrunken expectations? ...
Urbanism Rethinking The Hazardous Waterfront What's the most unhealthy part of Philadelphia? A new study says anywhere along the Delaware River. In a Soapbox column today, Chris Mizes argues that while planners are taking into account public health by promoting ...
