Center City

The Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities has started a parklet pilot program. The parklets are designed to look like mini parks. They are small platforms that extend sidewalks out to the street and replace

Bicycles are a trendy, new form of transportation, especially with this year’s sky-rocketing gas prices. It has become too expensive to drive for some people. Many cities have been installing new bike lanes, starting bike-sharing

Dilworth Plaza will go from an unused and unattractive plaza to a well-maintained, green space. The new plaza will include a lawn, a large space for seating, a fountain, a café, renovations to the subway

Urban highways are changing around the world in order to meet 21st century needs. And now Philadelphia is joining in on the conversation. City planners, officials and residents attended a discussion forum titled, “Reimaging Urban

Who doesn’t like free events in Philadelphia where you can get a snack, watch a movie, meet new people, have an intriguing conversation, take a tour or do it all? The Philadelphia Center of Architecture

https://vimeo.com/36032279] The city has a new vision of renovation that will try to improve challenged neighborhoods, boost tourism revenue and increase city growth in the next 25 years. In a public meeting, the City Planning Commission

https://vimeo.com/33074084] After much resistance, the Occupy Philly movement has officially left Dilworth Plaza. Nov. 27 was the deadline given to the encampment at Dilworth Plaza. The leadership of the movement was given an eviction notice

Hundreds of police officers moved in early this morning and surrounded City Hall to issue the final eviction notice to Occupy Philadelphia protestors before they started to make arrests. They gave the protestors three warnings