Art & Design Artist Explores Urban Renewal at Park Towne Place Mid-century apartment towers become vessels for expression in a new art exhibition
Photography The Subjective Views of Three Mid-Century Photographers Tim Kerner examines social change and urban renewal through the work of three Philadelphia photographers
Urbanism Germantown’s Secret Pedestrian Mall Returns to Take Center Stage Born out of urban renewal in the 1970s, Maplewood Mall in Germantown reopens for business with a major reconstruction and 21st century upgrades
Photography Saving South Street Through the Lens of Denise Scott Brown Celebrated architect Denise Scott Brown and writer Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum take us back to the 1960s when an army of neighbors fought city government to save South Street from the Crosstown Expressway
Architecture Finding Adolf DeRoy Mark & His Adobe in the Sky Starr Herr Cardillo scours Society Hill looking for Philly’s most charming postmodern architect
History Appetite for Distribution: The Life & Times of Philly’s Wholesale Food Center Take a journey through the history of Philadelphia’s largest wholesale food market
Photography Photo Collection Project Takes A Walk In Ed Bacon’s Shoes Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn is digitalizing a treasure trove of slides from the personal collection of Philly city planner extraordinaire Edmund Bacon and they need your help. Michael Bixler has the details
History Waking The Quakers As Callowhill Stirs Harry K. takes us inside an old Quaker meeting house at 6th and Noble that was leveled with the rest of East Callowhill during urban renewal. The industrial area is springing back to life after decades of desolation
