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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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The Frankford Chocolate Factory at 21st and Washington Streets is in the process of demolition 
. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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South Philly group asks chocolate factory developer for community benefits

S. Philly residents are playing hardball with developer Ori Feibush over a $100 million residential redux of the 150-year-old Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Ave.

8 years ago

The Bradley family has lived in Point Breeze their whole lives. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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A Point Breeze night market inspires neighborhood pride

If you feed them, they will come.

8 years ago

A sticker from Election Day 2016. (Bastiaan Slabbers/WHYY News)
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Free transit on Election Day? SEPTA votes no

Other cities offer free transit on Election Day: Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Minneapolis, Austin, and Asheville, among others.

8 years ago

Shake Shack bought and installed a bike corral for its Center City location. (PlanPhilly)
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City seeks to stop cars from parking illegally in front of fire hydrants by parking bikes there instead

The $7,500 grant from Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund will help develop a prototype bike corral

8 years ago

Philly rowhouses
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PlanPhilly

City Council passes $71M housing bill

 City Council passed a package of housing bills on Thursday after over a year of debate.

8 years ago

A cyclist tentatively rolls into the street at Belmont and Parkside Avenues. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Life in the slow lane: The bureaucratic nightmare of building a bike network

How long does it take to build a bike lane?

8 years ago

An Old City District rendering shows a redesigned Market Street.  (courtesy of Old City Distric)
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Urban Planning
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State gives $12M for Philly transportation projects

In a few years time, Market Street in Old City may look brand new, thanks to a $3 million state grant announced Tuesday.

8 years ago

Lead architect Lluka Lakuriqi, left, Tajar Domi, center and Bujar Gjoka of the Albanian American Association are seen outside of the historic Lower Dublin Academy in Northeast Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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Community
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A NE Philly school designed by a friend of Ben Franklin to be reborn as Albanian cultural center

It was a schoolhouse where Revolutionary-era leaders offered a "polite education" to young men in the then-new city of Philadelphia

8 years ago

Lovett Memorial Library, in Mt Airy on Oct 1, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
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Community
PlanPhilly

In neighborhoods and online, library loyalists organize to reverse cuts

The organizers are calling for the city to supercharge its annual contribution to the library budget by more than 36 percent

8 years ago

A woman runs past a pile of litter next to a Big Belly trash can on South Broad Street. (Ariella Cohen/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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With no cash for trash, city mulls partnerships with private groups

Fewer public trash cans result in more litter on streets and in parks.

8 years ago

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Urban Planning

False alarm: e-scooters won’t hit Philly until 2019

8 years ago

Sandra Horsey at the reservoir (Neal Santos for PlanPhilly)
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Hidden habitat reclaimed as Discovery Center opens in Fairmount Park

Next in our series about Philly's changing public spaces, Ashley Hahn explores the Discovery Center, a new environmental education center in East Fairmount Park.

8 years ago

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Urban Planning

What should a monument be? Here’s what Philadelphians said

8 years ago

A 26-acre slice of the hulking Budd Co. auto assembly plant is going to auction. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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A Nicetown factory goes to auction

“It was the heartbeat of this neighborhood.”

8 years ago

The cost of residential construction is high in Philadelphia, the fourth most expensive building market in the U.S. (Ashley Hahn/Eyes On The Street)
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Changes to plumbing code expected to sharply reduce Philly construction costs

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

8 years ago

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