PlanPhilly Archive
What if the library could mend public life?
Ashley Hahn checks out the Free Library’s Center for Public Life, a new unit that’s aiming to connect Philadelphians of every stripe through cultural and civic programs.
8 years ago
Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists
The second floor east balcony of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which arguably has the best view of the Parkway in the city, will be a cardboard cityscape.
8 years ago
A hotter topic: Building heat resilience into multifamily housing
Affordable multifamily housing is the most vulnerable building sector when it comes to extreme weather, and its residents have fewer resources.
8 years ago
To vanquish food waste, a competition aims to design and compost
A competition to invent a new, better bin was launched last year by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability
8 years ago
Parking Authority chief Petri offers up a sweeping legislative agenda for change
For most of the Parking Authority’s history, its legislative agenda was little more than maintaining the status quo.
8 years ago
Listen 3:06Facade work refreshes 30th Street Station as Amtrak shops its commercial-district plan
Engineers and architects overseeing the project detailed the great lengths they’ve had to go to in order to faithfully restore the riverside Art Deco icon.
8 years ago
Listen 2:04What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians
Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign
8 years ago
Now that court has ruled, a resurgent Rebuild selects Harrowgate playground for rehab
In addition to improving the facilities’ themselves, Rebuild has been billed as a project that would enhance equity and economic development throughout the city.
8 years ago
Grays Ferry’s long-closed Lanier Playground reopens, with new hope and new purpose
Located in the heart of Grays Ferry, Lanier Playground had been closed since 05, but memories of when it brimmed with activity stayed alive in longtime neighborhood residents
8 years ago
The high cost of being broke: Transportation
On the 11th floor of a Center City office building, Rian Franks and Jacqueline Chapman sit just a few feet away from each other. B ...
8 years ago
Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history
It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.
8 years ago
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