neighborhood innovation : Featured Stories

Speakers were as gritty as this year's theme, The City, and we tried to spread some old-fashioned folding fun down in The Fractory at Temple.

They learn in the classroom about tree biology, identification, maintenance and pruning, then get their hands dirty in an effort to restore the city's tree canopy to 30 percent.

Turned down by 20 banks and four years in the making, the CreekSide Co-Op is finally ready to open its doors at the site of the former Ashbourne Market, a longtime community fixture.

When it comes to life in a major U.S. city, we are a surprisingly good deal, with lower rents than places like Seattle and Baltimore.

With a premium on public input and economic development, placemaking is increasingly being employed in cities around the world.

We've got innovation celebration at Asian Arts, a specially prepared Uyghur Dinner, and a Geofest that promises to take you around the world without leaving Philly.

Whether it's about saving lives or cities, innovation can be on a faster track in Greater Philadelphia, and here's how some of the region's brightest minds propose we speed it up.

Philly's stellar girl has the inside chatter on the talks that will take The City by storm on Nov. 8 at the Temple Performing Arts Center. Read on for 20 percent off your ticket.

Green jobs can mean many things to many people. To our expert, they have the power to transform Philadelphia on many levels: economic, environmental and educational, to name a few.

We've got checkers in West Philly, a mashup of texts and social media in University City , and a community arts festival in South Kensington on tap this weekend.

We love a good party and you're invited to be a part of our celebration of Flying Kite's first year of covering what's next in Greater Philadelphia.

The marker honoring gospel legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s time in Yorktown signals a new era for this historic neighborhood.

In its seventh year and now a brand agency, Hilary Jay's movement runs Oct. 13-23, putting forth its collective might with 150 public events.

It doesn't look or feel like a school, which is why this project-based learning experiment at the Navy Yard is already making a big impact on a diverse group of South Philly teens.

In full fall harvest mode, our minds are focused on food and you can get the good stuff in Fishtown and Society Hill, or from Mill Creek's urban farm.