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Searching For Frankford Creek Along A Winding Trail
Urbanism

Searching For Frankford Creek Along A Winding Trail

Sharon Barr goes looking for one of Philly’s oldest tributaries via the Frankford Creek Greenway. What she finds is an urban trail struggling to connect with its namesake

Parks And Trails Advance On The North Delaware While Real Estate Development Stalls
Urbanism

Parks And Trails Advance On The North Delaware While Real Estate Development Stalls

An earlier effort to encourage residential and mixed use development north of Penn Treaty Park hasn’t panned out. But as trail and greenway projects advance, officials reconsider the right approach to former industrial parcels

Photography

Confessions of a “Ruin Pornographer”

Call it “ruin porn” if you like, but for Abandoned America’s Matthew Christopher, photographing lost places is an act of interrogation–there are no answers, he says, only questions

Battersea But Better
Architecture

Battersea But Better

Philadelphia Electric Company’s monumental power stations on the Delaware: truly “palazzos of power”


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