Urban Planning

“It was the heartbeat of this neighborhood.”

Cheaper and more environmentally-friendly plastic infrastructure is now the norm.

A City Council committee voted unanimously to advance a package of affordable housing bills.

Nic Esposito, head of Mayor Jim Kenney’s Zero Waste and Litter cabinet, isn't shy about the work it will take to clean Philadelphia's notoriously filthy streets.

A new voluntary inclusionary zoning bill is projected to bring $18 million to the Housing Trust over the next five years.

It’s not hyperbole to say that no contemporary transit proposal has received as much hype as the Hyperloop.

'I’m going to man up for what happened on May 13,' says W. Wilson Goode Sr.

Added enforcement of traffic laws will focus on Market and Chestnut streets.

There was a “boom of store openings” across the U.S. between 2009 and 2017.

The city will not be paying your local community organization’s insurance bill anytime soon.

Hatfield House has become a hub for artists within the last year, but it still hasn't become a community space for all of Strawberry Mansion.

A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.

The historical commission heard impassioned testimony from both sides of the fate of the storied Painted Bride.