At the beginning of the year, Charlie Gardner at Old Urbanist   offered an academic's findings on zoning, especially where American pra...

(Please note that this post is the intellectual chassis for some other work.) Philadelinquency recently ran an excellent piece on how...

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...

Saw this item on Systemic Failure the other day: http://systemicfailure.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/vre-replaces-apartments-with-parking/ Pr...

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

Philadelphia's new Zoning Code came into effect today. What does that mean? Most superficially, all of the zoning designations in th...

The new Comprehensive Plan has a new subdistrict of CMX-5 (old C-5), called "Super CMX-5", which has a FAR of 1600% (allowing 16 s...

The controversial Roxborough development proposal that caused quite a stir last week is at the edge of one of the city’s more remarkabl...

Credit drexelmasterplan. The dream--and the reality. The announcement last month of Drexel University’s draft master plan (by the Boston...

Drexel Master Plan "In Progress" Image: drexelmasterplan Last Friday morning, Drexel University presented its nearly-complete ...

So here we go . Yes, I live along City Line Avenue, and like locals near and far I know there's always a Line in City Line , official...

Archive trawling Nathaniel Hood's blog, I found this post with this interesting argument: To really understand the problem in 2011, y...

Nostalgia* has been behind almost every movement in urban planning. 1. City Beautiful . Nostalgia for the imperial center , as establishe...

A few days ago, I began this series with a critique of Wynnefield Heights' present conditions . The two major issues the neighborhood su...

Nearly every American zoning code takes minimum parking requirements for granted: every habitable structure has to have a minimum of so-and-...