Urban Planning

Cleanup crews are slated to come through 14 neighborhoods this spring.

Treating snowy and icy roads has a year-round environmental impact, experts say.

The aim: Tap into infrastructure funds and try to restore a line connecting Reading, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Norristown, and Philly.

City Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson and others aim to educate Philadelphians on how to find out if a title is tangled, and provide resources to fix it.

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a new study.

The convenience was only a pandemic allowance, an agency spokesperson explained.

The owner of an affordable rental project in University City wants to sell the property, and is going to court over a just-passed City Council bill to ban the sale.

The Cobbs Creek Foundation drew scrutiny for chopping down hundreds of trees and making an improper political donation. What’s inside its lease with the city?

The $96 million grant, courtesy of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, will help plug holes in SEPTA’s operating budget amid reduced ridership.

The money is expected to last two weeks and help hundreds of households.

The city’s final design to narrow a busy section of Washington Avenue will be a mix of three, four, and five lanes.

A nonprofit promises to restore the public golf course to its historic design, but park users and flood advocates are crying foul over the removal of trees.

A report from the Center City District says city living remained attractive during the pandemic with continued robust construction and rapid home sales.

The "final design" decision to take Washington Avenue from 5 lanes to 3 was praised by many - then scrapped after concerns from vocal community organizations.

If signed into law, property owners would be required to prepare and execute a rat abatement plan before demolishing or fully rehabbing a building.