PlanPhilly Archive

The controller’s report reveals new details about the internal dialogue between officials grappling with how to respond to unprecedented public unrest.

In a year when many land use matters were disrupted by the pandemic, City Council created six new neighborhood overlays aimed at shaping development.

A lawn is among the amenities included in the city’s proposed redesign of the intersection of Broad, Erie, and Germantown. The design aims to improve safety and add green.

For some of Philly's Gen Z residents, 2020 was a political wake-up call. Now, they're bringing their ideas to city government.

We fear how many other businesses in the city are breaking laws and impairing the quality of life for residents without any consequences.

Mantua residents are working with city transportation planners to improve safety on a dangerous corridor. Changes are expected to come later this year.

Philly helped deliver Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their Election Day win. Here’s how he could repay the city, residents say.

Biden’s nominee, former NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg came to Philly last year to keynote the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia’s Vision Zero conference.

The reassigned SEPTA police officer was one of seven who attended the rally that preceded a deadly insurrection of the U.S. Capitol.

Kevin Simpson, who lives on one of the blocks visited by the crew, found the effort heartening after years of picking up trash on his own.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought de-facto segregation and substandard housing. Black Philadelphians knew the struggle all too well. They still do.

Former U.S. Marine Jamal Johnson plans to consume only liquids until Mayor Jim Kenney does more to address the city’s surging gun violence crisis.

Hopeful the incoming Biden administration will help it address climate change, the city now has a goal of achieving carbon-neutral emissions by 2050.

Getting hit by a rubber bullet helped Judith Max Palmer understand the wanton violence that Black communities experience too often at the hands of police.

During 2020’s racial reckoning, Black gardeners and white urban designers working on a city plan realized they needed to confront harmful racial dynamics.