Urban Planning

Poor-quality houses and unusually high poverty tilt the equation so that demand far outstrips supply here, making affordable homes hard to obtain and difficult to manage.

Guest: Debra McCarty Early this month, a water main broke in Center City Philadelphia, sending 15 million gallons ...

The city's water rate board has OK'd an increase in monthly water bills, with a slight bump in September and a bit more to come in 2019.

The corner of Second and Market streets in Old City is laden with history.

It aims to protect the vision of Edmund Bacon, the master planner who transformed the neighborhood into one of Philly's wealthiest during the urban-renewal era of '50s-'60s.

What good are big plans without any funding?

The Philadelphia Historical Commission just approved historic protections for eight of Wayne Junction's old industrial buildings.

The July 3 rupture raised a lot of questions for Philadelphians. Chief among them: Is the city’s water infrastructure too old or too shoddy to prevent such events?

When Schuylkill Yards was first announced – Brandywine Realty Trust’s proposal to turn 14 acres of largely empty, Drexel University-o ...

Other proposals include multiple smaller flood barriers, flood walls, berms, and levees.