Development
The Opposite of Gentrification?
The Citizen’s latest Development…for Good event featured Jumpstart Germantown’s Ken Weinstein and Jordan Parisse-Ferrarini, sharing what they know about growing developers and building wealth in their community
By Courtney DuChene
Could AI Help Cities Win Back the Middle Class?
What to Do with Market East … Right Now
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
By Amanda Soskin
Does Pittsburgh Have the Answer to Philly’s Market East?
The other big PA city is undergoing an ambitious public-private effort to reinvigorate a lagging city corridor.
By Diana Lind
Neighborhood Renewal By Residents, For Residents
Jumpstart Germantown has helped more than 3,000 Philadelphians become developers of affordably-priced housing. Could this local model work for the entire country’s housing crisis?
By Courtney DuChene
Where Art Thou, Rebuild?
Connor Barwin’s City-funded $21 million revamp of Vare Recreation Center shows what the Kenney-era program could accomplish — so why did it fall so short of its target?
By Malcolm Burnley
The Arena Deal That Wasn’t
Billionaires fighting. Pols flailing. Protestors screaming. Did the last three years really happen? What went wrong — or right — behind the arena wars
By Larry Platt
A Unique Opportunity On Housing
Drexel’s Metro Finance Director on how an 8-year-old tax incentive might be a key to solving America’s urban housing crisis
By Bruce Katz, Ross Baird and Michael Saadine
The Case for a Politics of Repair
We need more of what Governor Josh Shapiro gave us with the quick fix of I-95
By Diana Lind
Can We Talk About the Roundhouse Now?
With the 76 Place debate behind us, can we get down to actual neighborhood — and city — planning?
By Courtney DuChene