Technology
Using Math to Predict Police Misconduct
Plus: Using garbage for jet fuel and teaching aquaponics to inmates
By Stephen St. VincentTurning Refugee’s Boats Into Backpacks
Plus: an Uber for blood donations and the best place to put a bus stop
By Stephen St. VincentEmploying Undereducated Fathers
Plus: Personal climate control (very personal) and cops teaming up with social workers to help children of violence
By Stephen St. VincentMaker City
Maker spaces like Hive76 are reinventing manufacturing and reshaping cities
By Emma Copley EisenbergThe Revolution Is Operational
When’s the last time you encountered the city bureaucracy and said to yourself, “Wow, what great customer service?"
By Larry PlattEmily Kramer-Golinkoff
Emily’s Entourage founder is racing against time to cure her own rare disease
By Kyle MountainThe Play(ground)’s the Thing
Landscape architect Lois Brink turned Denver school yards into community parks. Can she do the same in Philly?
By Melanie BavariaDave Silver and Will Toms
An innovative music incubator helps local musicians succeed—and stay in Philly
By Malcolm BurnleyGive the Gift of Good
The Citizen’s 2015 Socially-Conscious Gift Guide
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyThe New Guard Party Bus
We took a group of young disruptors to Pennsylvania Society…and returned with a heightened sense of possibility
By Larry Platt