7.12.2016

Measuring The Street: Cars in the Italian Market

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Parking is essential to retail, right? Especially in off-center commercial corridors with a reputation for attracting tourists and folks co...
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3.17.2016

East Market Street Requires a ReDesign

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When Jan Gehl was in Philadelphia in February to accept the 2016 Edmund N. Bacon Prize , he took a walk down Market Street with PlanPhilly...
2.03.2016

(Accidental) Success for OpenStreets PHL

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Open Streets , the national effort to open up streets to pedestrians, is gaining steam.  Millennials love it; it makes children happy, and i...
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6.28.2015

Transect Talk: Trails and Parkland

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Philadelphia has a beautiful history and network of parks and trails.  After a long hike a little while ago, it dawned on me that parks and ...
10.31.2014

Halloween: another reason row houses are totally awesome

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Halloween might be the holiday made best by walkable urban places.  Christmas and its caroling has its charms and may give All Hallows Eve a...
9.28.2014

SEPTA Expansion: First, How Did We Get Here?

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Back in last September, SEPTA was facing the very real prospect of drastic cuts in service because of decades of deferred maintenance result...
9.26.2014

When a Bike Lane is More than a Bike Lane

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This post originally appeared as a Helen Ubinas column in the Philadelphia Daily News .  Supplemental italicized text and graphics in this ...
7.06.2014

Think tank’s urban jobs agenda misguided: cities must be empowered, not wards of the state

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This post originally appeared as an  op-ed in the Hartford Business Journal by your correspondent and David Panagore. The Connecticut ...
4.30.2014

Make Transit a Downtown Priority and Get the Details Right

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This post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Hartford Courant .  Supplemental italicized text and graphics in this post are intended to ...
3.17.2014

Economic Development - How Philadelphia Snagged Comcast without Giving Away the Farm

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Comcast Innovation and Technology Center - This is the year's big real estate development news in Philadelphia.  Comcast and Liber...