Developer Michael Samschick’s plans for his Canal Street North project are the most ambitious since Bart Blatstein built the Piazza, but he’s changed up the formula to include national chains. Will it work?

Scottish memorial sculpture joins Front Street monument row

The Great Conflagration of 1850—a disaster fought with water and technology

Willow Street: the curious curvaceous chronicle of Cohoquinoque Creek

Steven Ujifusa captured a confluence of antique ships docked on the Delaware waterfront yesterday, which makes them part of Philadelphia as far as we’re concerned, even though technically they were suspended above riverbed belonging to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania