From Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents , courtesy Envision Baltimore : Rather than having an urban fabric based on spatial definition...

Back in September 2012 I wrote a post called The Space Between , in which I detailed urban design treatments linking the Penn and Drexel cam...

Remember this post ? Remember this picture? Well, with the new Mormon apartment building , I thought I'd bring it back to life, and p...

Check out this PDF if you've got the time: http://www.pike-pine.org/download/Pike-Pine-Renaissance-Design-Vision.pdf One of the more e...

...because once something becomes mainstream, it's going to be perverted, and Jannie Blackwell's proposal is about as extreme a perv...

Apex Urbanism is another excellent blog in the old urbanist vein, heavily influenced by Nathan Lewis and Charlie Gardner. Still fresh, it...

Comment on yesterday's Plan Philly post : There *is* a baby in the bath water here. While I agree Jannie is introducing this bill ...

The St. Stephen's Square proposal for 10th and Market Market East is at a crossroads. PREIT has bought out the former Gimbels at 9...

The North Broad casino proposal, the "Provence". Late last week, just before Sandy's wrath broke over the Northeast, Bart ...

The 30th Street area is marked by a few very large presences: the railroad and the two universities, Penn and Drexel. Both are putting hea...

I found this article about stations as third places, and I'd like to offer my comment on it: The article in question has a bit of con...

Current "Kingsley Court" site plan The former Ivy Ridge Personal Care Center, ground zero of a Villanova socialite’s bilking o...

Papadakis Building. drexelmasterplan Take a look at Drexel’s three newest buildings: the recently-opened Papadakis Integrated Sciences ...

Paseo Verde, looking south from 9th and Norris. Image: WRT The Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) has partnered with the J...

A strange thing is happening at Drexel's academic quad. After suffering the "indignity" of being named the country's uglie...

Columbus has an interesting expressway cap on High Street. Check it out . . High Street cap from the sky While the Tribune blog blovia...

I've been at my childhood home in the far suburbs these past few weekends helping my mom move, and what has caught my eye is the first r...

Here we have 1600 North Broad, Temple University's blasé but surprisingly handsome Brutalist-lite brick box built by Broad and Cecil B...

In the past I've (blasély) talked about naked streets, or as they are more euphemistically known, shared space, mostly in the context of...