Topic: Philadelphia Parks

The City’s ambitious Tree Plan will need an all-out effort to accomplish. Here, some ideas we could steal from elsewhere

This week in Philly, come to Green Philly's EcoFair, Chestnut Hill's Home and Garden Festival, Mural Arts' Printmaking By The People, the Italian Market Festival, and much more

The park’s volunteer coordinator gets it done, from reclaiming lakes from the “phrag” to putting anyone who raises their hands to work.

An abandoned lot sparked a community-led movement to reclaim green space in the North Philly neighborhood

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?

The President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society believes making Philadelphia greener isn’t just a matter of “nice to have”

It’s getting hotter. We need to start planning for it.

Pop-ups, beer gardens and other seasonal spots in Philly to have some drinks and a nosh out of doors

The design for the Municipal Services Building plaza is like too many of our public spaces: bland and uncomfortable. Here, some ways we could do better

A government strategist has a radical idea for the historic park at the heart of a recent controversy over its William Penn statue