Inga Saffron

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.