Public Spaces

Beyond the Rizzo and Columbus statues, there are at least a dozen others at stake.

When Philly’s most-Instagrammed site gets a makeover, it’ll look… pretty much the same.

Land preservation and environmental advocacy nonprofits are largely white, despite the ties between racial injustice, economic inequity, environmental degradation.

Starting Monday, COVID-19 testing sites will be set up at restaurants in Rehoboth and Dewey Beach following a cluster of new positive cases.

The visual luminary, who died at 91, created the look of the Franklin Mills Mall and Sesame Place.

Urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman argues that in order for cities to be “human-centered,” white urbanists need to actively be anti-racist.

His announcement comes after he decried an attempt by demonstrators to remove a statue of Andrew Jackson that sits across from the White House.

The Amy Cooper video in Central Park has brought attention to how the great outdoors can be far from great for Black people.

With the resumption of outdoor dining, the town's mayor said that open alcohol consumption is over.

Mayor Jim Kenney signed the law allowing their use on July 3, 2019.

The health department says that while the teens were there, they attended large parties in nearby Rehoboth that may have exposed more than 100 partygoers to the virus.

Camping will be limited to tent-style camping while all other forms of overnight use will remain closed.

Spray parks have become popular places for people to cool off in the summer. But fears over the coronavirus mean that some cities are re-evaluating whether to keep them open.

Philadelphia officials promise to install more fences and signs after demands from community leaders.

There’s no single blueprint for making these public spaces public again, no agreed-on best practices for sanitizing materials. Libraries learn as they go.