PlanPhilly Archive

New research published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that repairing even one home can reduce crime by 21.9% on the block.

Can documentaries change a city? A group of Philadelphia media-makers believes so, and they have the pitches to prove it.

There’s currently no municipal composting program in Philadelphia. Advocates say this is a good start.

Visit the people and places that shape their neighborhoods and communities as told through PlanPhilly’s The 47: Historias along a bus route series.

It’s been a costly journey for SEPTA’s fare card. The latest contract adjustment bumps up the amount paid out to Conduent to $208 million.

40th Street’s Trolley Portal Gardens is a perfect example of how greening transit spaces in Philadelphia is good for the economy, communities, and our city.

After several years of seeing Philadelphia fail to meaningfully diversify the city’s booming construction and building trades, Black workers want change.

The delay is the latest chapter in a saga that began decades ago when state planners bulldozed communities to build the river-blocking highway.

The community benefits agreement marks a first for Shift Capital.

The agency will keep 60 unarmed guards, posted between 15th Street Station and Frankford Transportation Center, beyond the planned 90-day term.

The winning concepts focused on permanent pedestrian improvements for the infamously auto-centric parkway. A panel will eventually select a single plan.

Alden Street residents worked through their trauma together after the fatal shooting. One resident called her block “a village looking after the children.”

SEPTA was bullish on battery-powered electric buses. But $2.6 million and 25 broken buses later, the agency is rethinking its approach.

West Philly’s 140-year-old Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is set to be demolished, erasing local Black history and memory, writes resident Kyle Hiller.

Mount Laurel’s Black community has roots that trace back to the Revolutionary War and a legacy that has shaped housing development across the country.