9 December 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Germantown’s streetscape is as exuberant and variegated as any city district in America, its organic urban form the antithesis of Center City’s oppressively rational grid. And today, like Town Hall, it is stuck, seemingly too expensive to fix, its potential obvious and yet painfully elusive.
1 May 2009 | The Pennsylvania Gazette
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
12 February 2009 | Philadelphia City Paper
These are but disappearing scenes in the nervous city. Contractors, who haven’t been without work for a decade, are sitting at home. Some, behind the Tundra’s wheel, roam the city.
29 April 2008 | Philly Skyline
It isn’t history that has excited him. Rather Hague seems inspired imagining a future for Nicetown and Lower Germantown. “There is a lot of opportunity here,” he says then pauses. “And a lot of opportunity for missed opportunity.”
1 April 2008 | Philly Skyline
There is an important difference between Philadelphia in 2008 and Philadelphia in 1988, at the eve of the last deep recession, and that is immigration. In 1988, few immigrants came here.