Friday, June 22, 2018
Community Development
At Penn summit, leading urban thinkers ponder a course correction
In his 2017 book "The New Urban Crisis," Richard Florida writes about an ongoing tug-of-war between two schools of thought among the urban intelligentsia: the Optimists and the Pessimists. Florida, who…
The Gayborhood: A place-time continuum
PlanPhilly has been looking at pop-ups and the neighborhoods in which they take place. On Thursday, June 21, the Food Trust brings its popular Night Market to the Gayborhood, 13th and…
Eastwick feasibility study recommends tearing down brutalist icon Pepper Middle School, residents say
It wasn’t really unexpected. For more than a year, Eastwick residents have been listening to experts say that the former George Wharton Pepper Middle School, on 84th Street between Mario Lanza…
