PlanPhilly Archive
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
With Labor Day just ahead, Philly makes block-party permit seekers work harder
Philly loves a good block party.
8 years ago
Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground
Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.
8 years ago
Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park
As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.
8 years ago
In Philly, planners increasingly want to talk with you, not at you
Public planning meetings can be contentious, to say the least.
8 years ago
An appreciation: Jeremy Nowak challenged assumptions about what was impossible
Jeremy Nowak lived to challenge dusty assumptions and the soft thinking that emerges from the comforts of ideology.
8 years ago
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