Topic: Parks and Recreation
How to Love Your Park All Year Round
About 95 percent of Philadelphians live within walking distance to a park. Here’s what you can do to help yours, no matter the season
By Rebecca Gibian
Books, Binoculars and Birds
“Birder Backpacks” at 20 Free Library branches take Philadelphians from the stacks to the trails
By Thomas Devaney
Philly Had the Answer to the Manosphere
So why did we get rid of places like the old LOVE Park, where young men want to hang out?
By Diana Lind
“Keep Moving, Whatever You Do”
We Walk PHL has logged over 3,000 walks in 28 city locations over the last eight years. It’s reshaping how Philadelphians feel and appreciate their parks
By Thomas Devaney
We Need More Complete Parks
Are a restroom and a snack bar too much to ask for?
By Diana Lind
Where Are the Trees We Were Promised?
Two years into the City’s first-ever Tree Plan, our leafy coverage has remained static. What happens now?
By Courtney DuChene
FDR Park Steward Tara Anastasi
The park’s volunteer coordinator gets it done, from reclaiming lakes from the “phrag” to putting anyone who raises their hands to work.
By Thomas Devaney
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
“A Place Where Everyone Comes Together”
The architect of Central Park’s Edenic resurgence has retired to our own Rittenhouse Square, where he is the most well-versed park volunteer. Here’s what he thinks we can learn from NYC
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Placemaking and Economic Growth
The next in our Development … for Good series in partnership with Fitler Club and Drexel’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation features Connor Barwin, Jerry Sweeney and other investors in our city’s public realm
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy