Inga Saffron

Spring Garden Street can’t be transformed into a walkable, urbane boulevard without keeping its landmark buildings intact.

A preservation plan would make Christian Street the first space in Philadelphia to receive that honor specifically for its Black history.

This time the city is serious about taming the Parkway’s roads and making it more parklike. But will that be enough to bring more activity?

The new space offers no restrooms, no respite from the rumbling traffic, no water feature, no public art, nothing to delight our eyes.

US Squash has created a country club setting for Philadelphia school kids, while finding a lively use for a dowdy historic building.

There are few places in America where the symbols of freedom and the restrictions borne of our desire for safety clash so sharply as they do on Independence Mall, one of America’s national parks.

Building a proper bus terminal could take Philadelphia years to realize. But there are simple measures city officials could be taking now to dignify this important form of intercity transportation.

The Cedar Park saga demonstrates how hard it is to get Philadelphia residents to accept affordable housing developments, even in places where residents are worried about being priced out.

How a Delaware waterfront townhouse project managed to fail in Philadelphia’s sizzling housing market remains a mystery to the city’s development community and Fishtown residents alike.

Coming up with the rules for an entirely new building type, especially one that can be as big as a tractor trailer, is no simple task.

Because Philadelphia’s premier hospital district has prioritized easy car access, it has been slow to create public spaces where essential workers can go to decompress.

The proposal is a startling throwback to an older, discredited way of thinking about cities.

Safeguarding history through development restrictions makes sense, but the city’s most beautiful neighborhoods should remain dynamic and welcoming places for all.

The Bellwether District will start construction on two warehouses this fall, paving the way for a logistics hub that could employ 19,000 people. No one knows yet how everyone will get there.

It took half a century to repurpose Philadelphia’s vast inventory of obsolete factory buildings. Now we can apply what we learned to office towers.

The Celtics’ neighborhood, it turns out, is nothing like Market Street.

The Biden administration promised to make urban highways less intrusive. So why is I-95 about to expand in South Philly?

Since enforcement began in July 2022, only five housing projects — with a total of 106 new apartments and fewer than 30 income-restricted units — have received permits within the restricted area.

While the plan won’t turn the stadium parking lots into a neighborhood overnight, it starts a discussion about how to use that wasted real estate for the kind of activities that make cities, cities.

Chestnut Street is struggling to keep up with changing retail conditions, and Jefferson’s neglect is one the things holdings back the corridor.