Public Spaces

Ten years after the first plan to revitalize Chester's waterfront, there's a new one in the works. Why there's more at stake for the struggling city this time.

Philly rose 11 spots to place 19 in a survey of the park systems belonging to the nation’s 100 largest cities.

A neighborhood is fighting to keep just one block of one street car-free. But it’s waging an insurgency in a war automobiles won decades ago.

A feral cat colony on the Delaware River waterfront has city agencies, environmentalists, and cat-lovers pitted against each other.

Monday is the final day of the City Nature Challenge. Philly is competing with 100 other world cities to find and record the greatest number of living things.

The Pittsburgh synagogue that six months ago was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history held a vigil and offered its sympathy after another deadly shooting

As Philly's vacant land becomes more valuable to buyers, growers who claimed abandoned lots for community gardens are at risk of losing these beloved spaces.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is banking on Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's "Restore Pennsylvania" infrastructure plan to fix its aging parks.

Two-thirds of Philly's public schools don't have playgrounds. Research shows the spaces are beneficial for kids, so why is it so hard to build them?

We get tips on getting the garden ready for summer and answer questions on native plants, mulch, compost, trees, weeds and more.

A WHYY investigation found Philly was ticketing people for not moving their cars during street sweeping — even though streets weren't being swept. What's happened since?

If the legislation gets the needed approval votes, it would be the second district-wide ban, making food trucks illegal in most of the Northeast.

More than 40,000 square feet of new, technology-savvy public space do not hold books, but aim to promote civic engagement as the Philadelphia Free Library refines its mission.

A recent analysis shows that visitation to U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land has risen by about 15 percent over the last decade, while its budget falls.

Water quality improvement projects in the Delaware River Watershed get $4.1 million under the new Delaware River Basin Conservation Act.