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Urban Planning

Protesters take over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
PlanPhilly
Public Spaces
Race & Ethnicity

White urbanists: let’s use our privilege to advocate for anti-racist design

Urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman argues that in order for cities to be “human-centered,” white urbanists need to actively be anti-racist.

6 years ago

A family works at the La Parcelas community garden in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Outdoors
Philadelphia

PHDC streamlines public land sale system for those envisioning side yards, community gardens

The agency managing certain city land sales will launch new online platforms to allow formal applications to buy land for side yards or community gardens.

6 years ago

File photo: A SEPTA regional rail train. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Public Health
Transportation

SEPTA to boost service on Regional Rail lines starting Monday

Trains will run hourly weekday service on most lines as the transportation agency gets back on track for the region’s move into the green reopening phase.

6 years ago

Gardeners (from left) Josh Reaves, Mirta Gonzalez, Sara Vega, Willow Zef, Morgana Ginet, Anthony Batrick, Lauren Troop and Ada Marie Biaz at the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Economic Development
Philadelphia

South Kensington gardeners challenge housing project — and win a conversation

Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha is partnering with Scannapieco Development Corporation on the mixed-income development.

6 years ago

A street sweeper works along Kensington Avenue
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Streets & Roads

Street sweeping to continue in 6 Philly neighborhoods and on business corridors

Budget cuts, however, will prevent a planned expansion of the city’s street cleaning program.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Outdoors

After delays, N.J. beach replenishment project to get underway

A $32.5 million beach replenishment and dune building project in Cape May County that was scheduled to begin earlier this year will soon be underway, officials said.

6 years ago

Smoke billows from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Economy
Energy
Philadelphia

Company buying bankrupt PES refinery promises 18,000 jobs in next 10 years

A Hilco Redevelopment Partners executive told a City Council hearing the company’s plan will create 8,000 union construction jobs, 10,000 permanent jobs.

6 years ago

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small speaks at a press conference, where he announced that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has filed plans to demolish the former Trump Plaza casino, in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, June 11, 2020, where pieces of the building have broken loose and crashed to the ground. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Economic Development
New Jersey

Carl Icahn wants to raze a former Trump casino. But when?

Mayor Marty Small held a news conference to announce that Icahn's company has filed demolition plans with the city that call for both towers of the casino to be implode.

6 years ago

City Councilmember Helen Gym and Mayor Jim Kenney. Gym has challenged proposed cuts to city housing programs. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Health

Making a ‘hard situation even worse’: Philadelphians ask mayor to rethink housing cuts

The city’s proposed spending plan leaves $45 million less for affordable housing programs. The cuts threaten four multifamily projects, among other programs.

6 years ago

People broke windows on historic buildings and wrote angry messages  in the aftermath of peaceful protests of police brutality. (Bradley Maule for PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Architecture & Design
Preservation
Race & Ethnicity
Eyes on the Street

Why do we save white monuments and let Black history rot?

People damaged historic buildings in the aftermath of protest. Let’s not mourn. Instead, think about the values and stories we tell with our architecture.

6 years ago

A protested eviction in Germantown, July 2012
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Health

Landlords resist new laws to freeze rents and ban evictions for COVID-impacted renters

Landlord groups oppose City Council’s proposals to protect renters affected by COVID-19 emergency from eviction, freeze their rents, and require mediation.

6 years ago

A garden bloom in front of a historic home in the Garden Court neighborhood. (Ryan M. Collerd for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Preservation
Eyes on the Street

I am a preservationist. This pandemic reminded me to see Philly’s ‘miracles’

Preservationist Paul Steinke rediscovers the wondrous yet fragile beauty of his West Philadelphia neighborhood, taking readers to 8 Garden Court sites.

6 years ago

Traffic jams the Garden State Parkway across the Great Egg Harbor Bay Inlet Bridge near Ocean City, N.J.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Infrastructure
New Jersey

N.J. Turnpike, Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway to increase tolls

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority and South Jersey Turnpike Authority voted to increase tolls on the Turnpike, Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger / Imagic Digital)
Public Health
Streets & Roads
Transportation
Billy Penn

Megabus restarts Philly service amid confusion over roadwork behind 30th Street Station

You can get tickets to D.C. now and NYC next week — and the bus will pick you up in the regular spot, officials say.

6 years ago

Open fire hydrant during heatwave in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Public Health

A deadly hot summer is coming. Philly doesn’t yet have a plan.

The communities hit hardest by the coronavirus are also the most at risk during the extreme heat expected to come this summer, epidemiologists say.

6 years ago

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