3 May 2013 | Hidden City Daily
In Gregory Heller’s just released book, the legendary city planner is a man of contradictions. My review of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, the first comprehensive Bacon bio.
29 April 2013 | Hidden City Daily
The 30 story Grove at Cira South, a residential tower under construction at 30th and Chestnut, ably negotiates its site, users, and the city itself. Brad Maule and I talk to the developer and the architects about their ideas for the ambitious building.
25 April 2013 | Hidden City Daily
At the Painted Bride starting tomorrow a PIFA production that explores the urgent lives of white and African-American women who formed the Female Anti-Slavery Society and whose work exploded in the night of May 17, 1838, when Pennsylvania Hall at Sixth and Arch was burned by a violent mob.
24 April 2013 | Art Attack/Philly.com
Cast in the late 19th century, Beth Kephart’s her potent streets crackle and slur.
20 March 2013 | Hidden City Daily
“This is a great city,” someone will say, and I’ll doubletake and ponder what I know about the 331 years since William Penn set things up, and I’ll nod and look at the sidewalk (or the floor if we’re inside).