Voice: Amanda Soskin

What if Philadelphia applied the Free Library model to household tools, vacuums, even party supplies? London’s Library of Things does it — saving Londoners millions

H.O.M.E. is Philadelphia's most ambitious housing investment in decades. A civic infrastructure consultant argues that the city still lacks something essential: an independent account of housing system health.

Pop-up retail? Parklets? Public art? All of these, a former city planner says, are “Meanwhile Uses” that can start to revive the Center City corridor