Urban Planning

Hepatitis A is spreading through fecal matter on Philadelphia streets. As outbreak worsens, the city is installing mobile bathrooms.

The Flats is in the midst of a major $100 million project to tear down and rebuild more than 400 affordable housing units over ten years.

City Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown said the issues delaying a vote on a controversial regulation have been resolved. Landlords aren’t happy.

One of Philly’s last surviving public housing towers is moving towards demolition. Many tenants say the time is right.

Nonprofit developer Stephanie Sena will test her model for low-cost, infill housing on vacant land acquired from the Philadelphia Land Bank in 2018.

It’s the latest in a string of vandalism incidents that have targeted properties associated with the developer and his company, OCF Realty.

Commuters without a lot of cash to spare get hit hardest by SEPTA’s transfer fees, according to new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Mayor Jim Kenney cut the ribbon Tuesday on the first completed project of his sugary beverage tax-funded Rebuild initiative: a restored Fishtown Recreation Center.

While the mercury cracks triple-digits above ground, the subway stays cool.

DelDOT crews worked around the clock to repair stretch of highway that buckled under high temperatures. They’re on the lookout for more damage this weekend.

Spring Garden Street through Center City may only be 2.1 miles long, but it represents an opportunity for the cycling community — in Philadelphia and across the East Coast.

Philly is under a heat health emergency this week — a new scientific report says the region will see more dangerously warm days if there's no action to cut global emissions.

The Media/Elwyn line, the Wilmington/Newark and Airport lines will be affected from July 20 to Aug. 4.

A new Philadelphia Federal Reserve study finds little evidence to support the idea that gentrification is massively disruptive to lower-income city residents.

New transit maps coming to 100 stations