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Advocacy Articles

2024-04-03

Statement on the Conceptual Stadium District Development Proposal

2024-04-01

Testimony on Councilmember Landau's Streeteries Resolution

2023-10-06

The Future of the Past: Preserve Philadelphia's Roundhouse

2023-08-20

DAG’s Statement on the Proposed Sixers' Stadium

2023-08-20

Questions For Hilco Redevelopment Partners Regarding the Bellwether District

2019-11-19

DAG Supports Central Delaware Advocacy Group (CDAG) on Delaware River Overlay

2019-11-03

It may be legal, but it’s a crime

2018-10-04

Billboard at the Ben Franklin Bridge

2017-11-02

DAG Statement on Ad Kiosks

2015-03-26

Urban Experiential Displays Bill No. 140906-A

2010-08-04

Family Court

Forum Articles

2023-12-02

Small Developers Are the Key to Housing Affordability and Safety

2023-07-06

BEYOND SINGLE USE: How an Open Building or Infrastructure Model Can Help Revitalize Our Cities

2020-08-12

The Future of the Built Environment in the City of Brotherly Love

2018-10-01

A Session with Art: “Making a Classic Modern” (or Wrestling with a Crisis in Faith)

2011-11-01

Looking Up on Broad Street

2011-02-01

Curb Clutter

2004-11-18

Park Place

2004-09-02

Forget Paris: Philadelphia urban design includes great public art.

2004-07-22

Building Bridges: Finding new uses for an old viaduct.

2004-07-01

Forlorn Franklin Square

2004-02-26

The Social Life of Design

2003-10-23

Sign Us Up: The medium really is the message.

2003-10-02

Square Root: Robert Downey is shooting a documentary about Rittenhouse Square.

2003-09-04

Golden Opportunity: HACE makes waste disappear on El Centro de Oro.

2003-08-07

Green Acres: What’s the future for Philly’s urban gardens?

2003-04-10

Raising the Bar: Seemingly small improvements will go a long way toward making Philly great.

2003-03-20

Tree-mendous Assets: Chopping down street foliage paves the way for blight.

2003-03-13

High Hopes: The design for One Pennsylvania Plaza is a blueprint for excellence

2003-02-27

Ogontz Part II: The avenue's rebirth stabilizes a neighborhood.

2003-01-29

Disappearing Act

2003-01-09

Looking for Excitement: The public spaces around City Hall are rich in potential. Just look what happened in Rotterdam.

Upcoming Events

Monthly Event

5.2.2024

Take the Lane 2024: Expanding opportunities for more placemaking in the Right of Way

6.4.2024

Streeteries Return to Philadelphia: Conversations with Councilmember Rue Landau and WXY Studio

Past Events

Archived | 2023-12-14

Unlocking the Benjamin Franklin Parkway's Potential as a Great Urban Park

Archived | 2023-11-02

Fireside Chat with Anne Fadullon

Archived | 2023-10-25

One on One with David Oh

Archived | 2023-09-28

Questions We Should Be Asking About the Sixers' Stadium

Archived | 2023-08-24

Cultural Preservation in Public Space: The FDR Park Southeast Asian Market

Archived | 2021-01-14

Preservation and the Public Realm

Archived | 2020-09-30

Whose History Is It? The Democratization of Preservation

Archived | 2020-09-15

Inclusive Recovery and Renaissance for North Broad

Archived | 2020-07-22

Rising Up: Commemorating Catto and Black Historical Figures

Archived | 2020-01-09

Beyond Neutrality - A New Vision for Eastern State Penitentiary

Archived | 2019-01-03

Monument Lab: Report to the City

Archived | 2018-11-01

The Delaware River

Archived | 2018-08-02

The Rebuilding of Mifflin Square Park, Engaging a Diverse Community through an Inclusive Planning Process

Archived | 2018-06-07

Further thoughts on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Archived | 2017-12-07

New Stories from the Parkway

Archived | 2017-07-06

Rethinking City Hall Courtyard: Options for the Future: Presentation by Paul Levy, CCD

Archived | 2017-06-01

Bartram's Garden: The Reclamation of the Tidal Schuylkill

Archived | 2017-03-02

Advertising in the Public Realm: Putting a Price Tag on Philadelphia

Archived | 2016-09-08

Circuit Trails in Greater Philadelphia

Archived | 2016-08-10

Design Matters: At the Navy Yard

Archived | 2016-08-04

Pop Ups, Preservation and Permanence: The New Frontier for Gardens and Open Space in Philadelphia

Archived | 2014-08-19

Happy Hour + Tour of Spruce Street Harbor Park

News

2018-08-05

A Buddhist temple embedded in a synagogue tells the story of South Philly immigration