“Becoming Philadelphia,” Inga Saffron’s new book chronicling Philadelphia’s rising fortunes over the past 20 years, hits the shelves during a week of tumultuous change. HC contributor Ann de Forest reviews the new collection, which traces not just Philadelphia’s evolution, but Saffron’s as well

Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize board announced its 2014 winners. After 15 years with a watchful eye on Philadelphia’s built environment, the Inquirer’s Inga Saffron won journalism’s highest award for criticism

Inga Saffron’s latest takedown has the Mural Arts Program back in the middle of current public discourse. But it’s no skin off the nose of the community-engagement juggernaut, as a full schedule of events marks their 30th anniversary, including this evening’s book discussion at the Free Library

  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 […]

The “ruin porn” tag was put on our tours and events schedule; we think we’re offering something that’s quite a bit more–we want to make people alive to the city’s possibilities