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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

 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 ...

10 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Lowering speed limits in urban areas

One way to get people walking and biking in cities is to slow down car traffic. ...

10 years ago

 Rendering courtesy of The Waterfront.
Keystone Crossroads

Allentown mixed-use waterfront development breaks ground

After years of planning, “The Waterfront,” a $325 million, 1.2 million ...

10 years ago

Coatesville, a small city in Chester county sold its water and sewer utilities for $48 million to the Pennsylvania American Water Company in 2001.  After the sale and a three year rate freeze expired,  combined bills increased an average of 282 percent.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

What your city can learn from the cost of water in Coatesville, Pa.

Rising administration costs and dwindling coffers mean cities across Pennsylvania are looking for quick cash. Selling off a big as ...

10 years ago

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 Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale reviews audit results at Harrisburg School District's Lincoln building. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Capitol recap: Why the budget impasse hasn’t affected a quarter billion dollars in municipal pension aid

Municipal pension aid isn’t determined by need. It’s based on the statewide average funding available per pensioner from ...

10 years ago

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 Scranton has many ways to view the foliage, from the banks of Lake Scranton to train tours through the mountains. (Vlad/Flickr)
Keystone Crossroads

During fall foliage season, money could grow on trees in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania towns and cities have plenty of options for leaf peepers. But the state wants to do more to catch up to New England.  ...

10 years ago

 Public works employees prepare to change signs along the eastbound lane of Penn Ave. in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. City officials closed the eastbound lane from 6th Street in downtown to 16th Street in the city's Strip District to motor vehicles and made it a protected bicycle lane. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Keystone Crossroads

To design great cities, think ambitiously, says one urbanist

Urbanist Gil Penalosa says a city is only great when it’s safe to use for both 8 and 80 year old people. Gil Penalosa evalua ...

10 years ago

 Blast furnaces on the former Bethlehem Steel site, which has been transformed into a mixed-use development including Sands Casino and arts-focused SteelStacks.(Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Capitol recap: Should Pa. cities still covet a special economic development designation?

The state’s economic development program in a select few cities has created some major competition and a little jealousy. Th ...

10 years ago

Today, the Berkey Creamery is located on the first floor of the Food Science Building. The Creamery still makes homemade ice cream as well as cheese, sour cream and frozen yogurt. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

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

 TGIF: Time for football, fall foliage and urban reads. Cities making change Tech companies are no longer interested ...

10 years ago

Today, the Berkey Creamery is located on the first floor of the Food Science Building. The Creamery still makes homemade ice cream as well as cheese, sour cream and frozen yogurt. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

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

 TGIF: Time for football, fall foliage and urban reads. Cities making change Tech companies are no longer interested ...

10 years ago

 A section of one of the program's information posters. (Courtesy of the Albuquerque Mayor's office)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Day jobs for people who are panhandling

A new program in Albuquerque offers panhandlers a job for the day, but then it also connects them to various services. ...

10 years ago

 The Pennsylvania Environmental Council says the Monongahela Aquatorium, an outdoor auditorium on the Monongahela River, could draw people into the city of Monongahela. (Pennsylvania Environmental Council)
Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

How can small cities and towns reconnect with their rivers?

One approach is to band together with other cities and towns along the river.

10 years ago

 Housing funds comes from fees assessed on each of the natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Keystone Crossroads

Shale communities get funds to improve housing

Communities living in the footprint of the Marcellus Shale have faced housing challenges. PHARE funding is expected to help ease that bur ...

10 years ago

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Pedestrians cross in front of The Corner Room at the intersection of College Avenue and S. Allen Street steps away from Penn State campus. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

Pa.’s college towns capitalize on the knowledge economy

Pittsburgh and State College take different approaches to appeal to students and private industry alike.  Walk around Videon& ...

10 years ago

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 Rendering of Grace Townhomes in the Port Richmond neighborhood in Philadelphia.(Nora Lichtash/WCRP)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: Community land trusts as a way to maintain affordable housing

Community land trusts, which have proven a valuable tool for maintaining affordable housing, have only made a limited appearance in the C ...

10 years ago

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