“Animals take to the streets amid lockdown,” reads an article recently published in the Guardian – however, the numerous claims that wildlife are reclaiming our cities, is a bit out-of-sort. Because fewer people are venturing […]
Tag: urban planning
Media Watch: Could Design Decisions Plaguing Houston Also Cause Persistent Flooding in Parts of Philly?
Could Philadelphia one day experience catastrophic flooding like Houston’s? Franco Montalto, PhD, a professor in Drexel’s College of EngineeringMed who studies how cities can be better designed to withstand environmental challenges, including those associated with […]
A Vision Taking Shape Along Philadelphia’s Waterfront
By Harris M. Steinberg More than 1,500 people had packed the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and it was so crowded that they opened an overflow room with a televised link. The November 2007 occasion was the […]
Will The Progress Philly Has Made Continue?
By Harris M. Steinberg My wife and I are watching HBO’s The Wire for the first time, and it’s shocking how similar the Baltimore that’s depicted in the series is to the Philadelphia that we […]