RT @LindyInstitute: Our conversation with Richard Lazer from @PhilaParking is next week, July 16 from 4-5 PM! 🚗💨. Register here: https://t.….

Congrats to ⁦@christopherwink⁩ for writing a whole piece on Philly’s terminal humility without mentioning the Quakers or E. Digby Baltzell

RT @DPearsonPHL: The Philadelphia region is missing around 100,000 jobs.

RT @thephilacitizen: Some Philly Registered Community Organizations give individuals outsized power to shut down housing proposals in their….

RT @thephilacitizen: The Historical Commission is charged with preserving Philly’s heritage. So why, longtime urban strategists @mikegreenl….

RT @thephilacitizen: The Historical Commission is charged with preserving Philly’s culture and heritage that is enveloped into our built en….

this is bad in two ways beyond the lost materials: it shows developers that the Commission directives have no teeth, and the fact that the Commission just acknowledged the loss without lament or apology means they're not worried about being held accountable.

Was bummed when Fishtown’s historic St. Laurentius was demoed instead of being turned into housing but heartened when the commission required building materials be used in new development. So when they lost the materials (!) I was pissed and wrote this:

RT @bruce_katz: As housing affordability dominates state and local campaigns, the National Housing Crisis Task Forces releases our State an….

RT @aarmlovi: Philadelphia built America's only true Schnellbahn but the city fathers never turned it on. They feared it would make Philly….

RT @aarmlovi: Philly could have fully electrified, level-boarding rapid transit trains coming every ~10 minutes on more than a dozen train….

RT @JohnnyWalsh__: .@SenatorPicozzi is launching a survey for SEPTA riders to ask what they’d like to see from the system. Take a minute to….

RT @ebottcher: NYC is developing its first Urban Forest Plan! With its 7M+ trees; a healthy, resilient, and robust urban forest will improv….

RT @PHLJournoCollab: Things have been kind of quiet about what to do with Market East since the @sixers stadium project died. Appreciate th….

RT @KevinMaddenDC: Cruz v. Tucker throw-down is an instructive case study of today's shifting information landscape: a creator-led digital….

RT @Jalon323: “I miss Strawberry Mansion-and I still live there.”. I put my soul into this one, please read. Thank you @PhillyInquirer for….

RT @DKThomp: Great WaPo article today: A new affordable housing project in Washington DC will cost $1.3m per unit—a price level that would….

RT @DPearsonPHL: Why won't City Council hold the Sheriff accountable?.

RT @KellanWhite: Only 3 wards had turnout above 25% yesterday. 17 had turn out below 10% and one ward has turn out at 4%!.

RT @LindyInstitute: Our conversation with Tiffany Thurman & Patrick Morgan is next Tuesday, May 20, from 4-5 PM! Join us for a behind-the-s….