Topic: Fairmount Park
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Philly, Take Your Outdoor Activities … Indoors
Rain, haze and heat make it tough to be outside in Philly this summer. Here, some places to go to feel like you’re outdoors while inside
By Olivia Kram![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Integrity-Icon-2022-Lori-Hayes-791x400.jpeg)
Philadelphia Integrity Icon 2022: Meet Winner Lori Hayes
The director of urban forestry at Parks and Rec is in charge of planting the trees that make our city more beautiful and livable—and making tree-centric programs accessible to all
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/philadelphia-skyline-2020-791x400.jpg)
How Good Development Is Reshaping Philly
Along with Drexel’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, we’re kicking off a speakers series that features a host of bold-face names exploring the intersection of private real estate development and the public good.
By Larry Platt![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/beaconfood2-791x400.jpg)
Ideas We Should Steal: Urban Food Forest
Seattle’s Beacon Forest provides free native edibles to anyone in the city. Could the soda tax make it possible for a Philly group to do the same here?
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Muhammad_Ali_1966-791x400.jpg)
Muhammad Ali’s Philadelphia Story
The city played a role in the making of the legend—and in the debate over the meaning of his legacy
By Larry Platt![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cadence-community-bike-build-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: Cadence Community Bike Build
Help get bikes—and biking—into the lives of Philly kids
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy