Development

Historic properties deserve preservation, but a circa 2019 loophole unfairly limits nearby residents’ input, says an attorney and concerned neighbor

Amid Washington, D.C.’s return to classical (and gilt-adorned) architecture, can Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center reinvigorate America’s waning affinity for modern design?

The City’s rules make street improvements like parklets and streeteries onerous for organizations. A pair of transportation researchers found no good reason to keep them

In the future, we’ll be working at night, skiing atop waste plants, buying single room homes, and measuring everything with AI, according to this year’s Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid

Can a half dozen pop-ups revive Center City’s most troublesome corridor?

Vienna and Maryland have invested in innovative, income diverse public housing to much acclaim. Could they work in Philly too?

A nationally renowned urbanist on how to formalize and scale the “stealing” of solutions across the country

Spain’s capital may be centuries older than Philadelphia. But the vibrant city offers forward-thinking growth mindset ideas our comparatively smaller (and younger) hometown should steal

San Francisco’s new incentive program to bring retail back to downtown is an idea Philadelphia should steal

Bipartisan zoning reform bills that could open up the state to in-law apartments and rooming houses could leave our city out. That would be a mistake