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New Womrath Park To Open In November
Urbanism

New Womrath Park To Open In November

A neighborhood park at the southern gateway to Frankford becomes an active cog in the city’s stormwater management machine

Where There’s A Will, There’s A Greenway
Urbanism

Where There’s A Will, There’s A Greenway

The last major open air creek without surrounding green space in the city, the Frankford Creek is poised to be lined by a trail and park connecting the Tacony Creek Park, now under construction, and the Delaware River. A feasibility study for the project will begin in 2013

Sustainability, Public Art, And Rain Barrels In Mt. Airy
Art & Design

Sustainability, Public Art, And Rain Barrels In Mt. Airy

We check in on Mt. Airy BID’s latest project: rain barrels, decorated by local artists, that contribute splashes of color to businesses along the Germantown Ave commercial corridor

Water Department’s Green City Launches
Urbanism

Water Department’s Green City Launches

Questions–and high expectations–as this new-style infrastructure project moves through “proof of concept”

Dough Boy Park Complete At 2nd And Spring Garden
Art & Design

Dough Boy Park Complete At 2nd And Spring Garden

DIGSAU’s design meant to enhance the connection between the neighborhood and the waterfront

Imagine Another Way
Urbanism

Imagine Another Way

In 1928 city engineers completed an almost 50 year sewer engineering project that completely removed the Wingohocking Creek (among dozens of others). Adam Levine visits the sewer outlet in Juniata Park

Philly As Waffle, Or How The City Was Built
History

Philly As Waffle, Or How The City Was Built

That iconic grid? It was wrought from hill and lowland, wetland and forest, a process that created what was probably the world’s largest waffle

Dough Boy Advances
Art & Design

Dough Boy Advances

A NoLibs patch of grass known for its WWI statue will become a waterfront connector and ammunition in the city’s stormwater management arsenal


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