PlanPhilly Archive

Licenses and Inspections Commissioner Dave Perri wants to radically rewrite Philadelphia’s zoning code to make room for smaller, more inexpensive housing units.

It’s empty buses like the 150 why SEPTA’s bus ridership has fallen 33 million, or 17 percent, over the last five years.

On Aug. 11, the city will close off traffic on both sides of North Broad from City Hall up to Erie Avenue.

In urban spaces all over the world, pedestrians traverse their cities’ neighborhoods, with the goal of living by the standards set by urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.

For years, an abandoned townhome development on East Collom Street has sat open to squatters and vermin.

The university’s proposed $130M stadium is the biggest — and most contentious — element of the university's growth plan but for Rawls, a smaller project hits closer to home.

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when w ...