Inga Saffron

US Squash has created a country club setting for Philadelphia school kids, while finding a lively use for a dowdy historic building.

There are few places in America where the symbols of freedom and the restrictions borne of our desire for safety clash so sharply as they do on Independence Mall, one of America’s national parks.

Building a proper bus terminal could take Philadelphia years to realize. But there are simple measures city officials could be taking now to dignify this important form of intercity transportation.

The Cedar Park saga demonstrates how hard it is to get Philadelphia residents to accept affordable housing developments, even in places where residents are worried about being priced out.

How a Delaware waterfront townhouse project managed to fail in Philadelphia’s sizzling housing market remains a mystery to the city’s development community and Fishtown residents alike.

Coming up with the rules for an entirely new building type, especially one that can be as big as a tractor trailer, is no simple task.

Because Philadelphia’s premier hospital district has prioritized easy car access, it has been slow to create public spaces where essential workers can go to decompress.

The proposal is a startling throwback to an older, discredited way of thinking about cities.

The Bellwether District will start construction on two warehouses this fall, paving the way for a logistics hub that could employ 19,000 people. No one knows yet how everyone will get there.

It took half a century to repurpose Philadelphia’s vast inventory of obsolete factory buildings. Now we can apply what we learned to office towers.