History Bless Our Beer Gardens, Past and Present Drinking al fresco reached new heights this summer as brilliantly designed beer gardens popped up all over the city. This isn’t anything new though, says Nic Esposito. Philadelphia has been publicly drunk since 1671
Art & Design Spruce Street Harbor Park To Remain Open Extra Month (Updated) The overwhelming success of the pop-up park convinces officials to keep the party going
Urbanism With Pop-Up Beer Gardens Under Threat, Here’s Why They Matter With pop-up beer gardens seemingly everywhere (and now under threat), Nathaniel Popkin talks with the designer of most of them, David Fierabend of Groundswell Design Group, about the ideas behind the installations
Art & Design How Spruce Street Harbor Park Succeeds In a city of squandered opportunities, here’s an intervention that transforms the way we interact with space–and the city. Nathaniel Popkin reviews the new Spruce Street Harbor Park, opening tomorrow
Art & Design Emma F-C’s Philadelphia Map: A Cut Above Emma Fried-Cassorla’s blog has provided an open platform for Philly Love Notes for two years now. To mark the occasion, she’s meticulously cut a three-foot-by-three-foot map of the city out of paper by hand—and she’s giving it away for free
