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The Subjective Views of Three Mid-Century Photographers
Photography

The Subjective Views of Three Mid-Century Photographers

Tim Kerner examines social change and urban renewal through the work of three Philadelphia photographers

Germantown’s Secret Pedestrian Mall Returns to Take Center Stage
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

Saving South Street Through the Lens of Denise Scott Brown
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

Finding Adolf DeRoy Mark & His Adobe in the Sky
Architecture

Finding Adolf DeRoy Mark & His Adobe in the Sky

Starr Herr Cardillo scours Society Hill looking for Philly’s most charming postmodern architect

AppetiteĀ for Distribution: The Life & Times of Philly’s Wholesale Food Center
History

AppetiteĀ for Distribution: The Life & Times of Philly’s Wholesale Food Center

Take a journey through the history of Philadelphia’s largest wholesale food market

Photo Collection Project Takes A Walk In Ed Bacon’s Shoes
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

Waking The Quakers As Callowhill Stirs
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

Skid Row Deaths Of 1963 Echoes Today’s Opioid Crisis
History

Skid Row Deaths Of 1963 Echoes Today’s Opioid Crisis

Steve Metraux takes a look at the “Canned Heat Wave” poisoning of 1963 that took the lives of 31 people on Skid Row. The public health scholar says the parallels between this tragic incident and Kensington’s opioid crisis is telling


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