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Center City: A Look at The State of Our Infrastructure

May 13, 2016 Daniel T. Pelligrine

For generations, Philadelphia has been a city of residents and commuters, creating a diverse city with a bustling downtown district and thriving satellite commercial centers connected by the original grid of surface streets and the

Arts and Entertainment

Kensington: A Greener Schoolyard for Hackett Elementary

July 21, 2014

Within the next few years, the schoolyard at Horatio B. Hackett Elementary School will no longer be known as a sea of asphalt, but rather as an educational landmark filled with greens and opportunities the

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West Philadelphia: Stormwater Plan Provides Opportunites

November 9, 2012

[vimeo 53075691] The Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City Clean Waters program is simply good business. There are multiple reasons that this statement rings true, starting with the positive impact that increased green infrastructure will have on

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