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Modern urban planning sought ways to make life easier. Often, it involved wholesale demolition of large swaths of a city in the service of big “renewal”…
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On the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, there's a riverfront district called HafenCity. It's made up of slender pieces of land that are divided by canals…
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Building codes seem simple enough: build buildings that are safe to live in. To keep up with changing technology, most states update those codes every…
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Immigration laws are set at the national level, but Congress continues to struggle with passing meaningful immigration reform. While some communities have…
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A judge has ruled the corruption case against former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed will go to trial.Reed faces corruption, bribery, theft and other…
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Michael Catania walks on a rocky beach at Petty's Island. He picks up a flat stone and flings it out into the Delaware River. The stone skips a few times…
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In case you hadn't heard, the Pope is coming to Philadelphia and the whole city is a bit on edge.Mayor Michael Nutter has said that "this will be the…
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Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, is hundreds of miles from the boardwalk and the beach, but mere steps from the Susquehanna River. And while no one has made a…
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There are some neighborhoods in Pennsylvania cities where half of the properties are blighted or tax-delinquent or both. Between Pittsburgh and…
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Industrial Ports Are Evolving And Growing, Even As Waterfront Redevelopment Opens Rivers To PublicRob Walters, a riverkeeper, launched his boat across from a staging area for barges on the Monongahela River, about 20 miles upriver from Pittsburgh’s…