Urban life-loving millennials are at least partially responsible for the growth of Greater Center City, and a good dozen other neighborhoods around the city. With this in mind, David Hilbert looks at Philadelphia’s young adults circa 1950-1970, during suburbanization. Where did they live and why?

If confidence has seeped into our civic conversation, there is a very real reason, says Nathaniel Popkin: continued growth

From the once capital of Sicily, 882 years in the shadows, Popkin ruminates on the growth and decline of the City of Brotherly Love–all cities lose population, he discovers