New Urban Order: Reclaiming Our Time

Why Philly should adopt other cities’ policies to help with our harried schedules — some very good time management ideas we should steal

By Diana Lind

The New Urban Order: The Hottest New Real Estate?

Governments have started using the property they own to increase affordable housing. Canada is doing it nationally. Philly’s doing it … at 13th and Bainbridge

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: Should Philly Be More Like … Detroit?

The midwestern city has gone from bankrupt to transformational growth by embracing innovation and bling. Here, some ideas Philly might steal from Motor City

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: The Best Housing Bill on the East Coast?

Is Massachusetts’ new housing package an idea Pennsylvania should steal?

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: It’s Time For a Shademaking Movement

It’s getting hotter. We need to start planning for it.

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: Should We Envy Paris’s Swimmable River?

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo got a lot of attention for cleaning the Seine in preparation for the Olympics. But that may not be best goal for Philly’s local waterways

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: Why Cities Should Invest in “Second Places”

Forget "third places," we need better places for people to work

By Diana Lind

New Urban Order: Why We Need a National Urbanist Party

There is no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the trash piling up in cities — but maybe there should be.

By Diana Lind

The New Urban Order: Big Events Like the Olympics Matter — Just Not the Way You Think

How cities prep for major happenings — like the country’s 250th anniversary, here in Philly in 2026 — matters just as much (if not more) than how the events themselves go

By Diana Lind

The New Urban Order: Should City Workers Work in the Office?

Mayor Parker is mandating all city employees work in person starting next month. City Council is pushing back. Is government ever going to be ready to return to office?

By Diana Lind