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Keystone Crossroads

How do Pennsylvania’s post-industrial cities reinvent themselves?

A new Keystone Crossroads TV special explores communities reinventing themselves using historical legacies and new resources.  ...

10 years ago

 Suburban sprawl in Lancaster County.  (Image courtesy of Flickr user Ken Lund)
Keystone Crossroads

Lancaster County has more sprawl than planners had hoped

 …and why those planners say that’s a problem. The Lancaster County Planning Commission just came out with a repo ...

10 years ago

 Bustling restaurants and businesses on opening night of the PPL Center in downtown Allentown, Sept. 12, 2014. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

For foreign investors, funding Allentown development is a ticket to the U.S.

Allentown is exchanging development dollars for green cards using a federal program called EB-5 visas.  Downtown Allentown lo ...

10 years ago

 Local artists created signs to encourage voter participation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

Election Day is over. The results are in for recommended urban reading. Mayoral races and cases With a population of a ...

10 years ago

 Local artists created signs to encourage voter participation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

Election Day is over. The results are in for recommended urban reading. Mayoral races and cases With a population of a ...

10 years ago

 Tourists and Parisians take advantage of Paris Plage, an artificial beach set up on the right bank of the Seine river with palm trees, outdoor showers and hammocks in Paris, France, Monday, July 20, 2015.  (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: A competition to bring urban innovation to forgotten properties

Urban design competitions can bring international talent and innovative ideas to cities — should Pa. cities consider hosting such compe ...

10 years ago

Lancaster Central Market is in the city's Community Revitalization & Improvement Zone. The program lets participating cities keep some state taxes to fund redevelopment. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Lancaster lawmaker calling for closer look at economic development program numbers

Pennsylvania’s CRIZ is meant to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars toward new development for communities. Pennsylvania’ ...

10 years ago

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 Democrat challenger Jason Imler (left) or Republican incumbent Matt Pacifico will become Altoona's first full-time mayor in 25 years.  (Images courtesy of the candidates)
Keystone Crossroads

Altoona electing first full-time mayor in decades

When the candidates in the Altoona mayor’s race met for a debate, they had to do something unusual: explain the position they are r ...

10 years ago

 Outhouse racing in Dushore, PA (Joe Ulrich/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

This week’s urban reads are brought to you by the letter “B.”  Bridge to somewhere ...

10 years ago

 Outhouse racing in Dushore, PA (Joe Ulrich/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

This week’s urban reads are brought to you by the letter “B.”  Bridge to somewhere ...

10 years ago

 The Manayunk Bridge, a former Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, reopens on Oct. 30 to pedestrians and cyclists connecting Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood to Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Manayunk Bridge reopens as a trail and a symbol of a changing economy

Ever since it opened in 1918, the Manayunk Bridge has been iconic, a symbol for its namesake section of Philadelphia. Iconic. ...

10 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

Even as a distressed city’s government recovers, Main Street doesn’t always follow

As Clairton petitions the state to exit Act 47, many residents point to a disconnect between the recovery of the local government and Mai ...

10 years ago

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 Police officer Jacob Stefani makes a patrol stop at an abandoned property in the Northeast section of Reading, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Can ‘predictive policing’ software help city police prevent crime?

A growing number of police departments are using software programs that companies claim can predict where crime is going to happen. < ...

10 years ago

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 Older houses in Williamsport get upgraded with PHARE funding. (Eleanor Klibanoff/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads

Marcellus Shale housing assistance program expanded statewide

A real estate tax will be used to improve housing affordability and accessibility across the state.  The Pennsylvania Housing ...

11 years ago

 Pennsylvania fall foliage (Evelyn Quek/Flickr)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

The Friday forecast is for a beautiful fall weekend and interesting urban reads.  Walkable safer citiesGil Penalosa, founder ...

11 years ago

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