Public Spaces

With tall trees and holiday decor popping up across the city, Billy Penn rounded up several light shows and ceremonies for you to consider.

Supporters and opponents showed up for a final, testy, raucous hearing on the Sixers arena proposal Monday night.

Proposed legislation would restrict mobile providers from operating on residential streets, near schools and recreation centers and in other public areas of Kensington.

Signs posted outside demand unhoused people vacate “Tent City” by Jan. 2. Tent City sits on Norfolk Southern property.

Artist Roxanne Slemmer has led more than 200 people in envisioning the borough’s past and present.

Shopping malls in the Philadelphia region are attempting to bring customers a unique experience to meet the demands of the future. Will it keep the lights on?

Part of the Trolley Trail that opened last year, the century-old skew arch bridge is getting a facelift.

Jane Golden walks Billy Penn through Philadelphia’s 40-year journey as a public art pioneer.

With their push to end smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos going nowhere fast, casino workers demonstrated outside a hotel where New Jersey’s governor was due to speak.

When everything starts. Where to watch runners. What the road closures will look like from Friday to Saturday.

The authority is in dire straits as the Sixers seek to build the transit-oriented development. It’s unclear where the additional funding will come from.

The renovations brought new indoor gyms to the rec center, which also became the first in the city with fiber-optic high speed internet.

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, based in Berlin, will design a Holocaust mural for a prominent intersection on the Parkway.

Police in Bucks County’s Buckingham Township said a single-engine plane had been taking off when it left the runway and hit an unoccupied plane.

The latest of Mayor Parker’s “clean and green” initiatives aims to keep household trash off the streets.