It’s Christmastime in Center City! And you would hardly know that from looking at the papers. The city’s best light shows this year, decl...

Jacques Gréber's Parkway Plan. Wikipedia This will be a start–but that’s all it will be: a start. The architect and city planner H...

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...

Photo credit: Peter Woodall Last week, a sort of miniature gaming den tried to open on Frankford Avenue in Fishtown. This was suppose...

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

I am a regular contributor on Hidden City Philadelphia now! Yay! Going forward, expect link posts the way Steve Smith manages Market Urba...

As we watch the bulldozer and trash trucks arrive this morning at Dilworth Plaza , and read of a 5AM face off between Occupiers and police...

(aka the Logan Triangle) Philaphilia's GroJLart has on Naked Philly a feature about the ruins of the Logan Triangle, a region of sub...

Strawbridge's in better times. Courtesy Labelscar . As has been reported , the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News are moving, fr...

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

Philadelphia's core is filled with classic grid urbanism, in a tradition handed down from aeons past. It is replete with narrow and ultr...

This is the long-awaited weeks-late follow-up to the first part of this photo essay --especially important since Charlie , Emily Washington ...