This project is funded through the Environment and Communities program, which seeks to stabilize and revitalize communities around existing infrastructure and to respond to the need for comprehensive solutions that include systems change and a connection to the regional context.
The partners in the project, and the local partner are being helped as well by a local transportation planning sub-contractor Kise Straw & Kolodner. In addition, the team is working closely with a number of local stakeholders and community organizations such as the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association and the Franklin Square Local Facilities Coordinators group.
is a non-profit research, planning, design and management organization that is dedicated to advancing the social and economic viability of the public realm through technical assistance, advocacy and education. PPS is an outgrowth of William H. Whyte's Street Life Project, the groundbreaking study on people's needs in public spaces that spearheaded more extensive inquiry into the use of public spaces and how they contribute to the quality of community life. Since its founding in 1975, Project for Public Spaces has worked with over 1,000 communities throughout the United States as well as internationally, to create and carry out strategies for growing public spaces into active, vital places.
, now celebrating ten years of successful operation in Center City Philadelphia, is a public space management organization whose mission is to increase the competitiveness of Center City as the region’s central location for business and innovation, to enhance Center City’s position within the region as a destination for arts and culture, dining, entertainment and shopping, and to reinforce Center City as a premier place to live. Governed by a private sector board and supported by a mandatory assessment on real property, the CCD supplements municipal services by providing services and programs to enhance the cleanliness, safety, and attractiveness of Center City.
, architects, planners, historians, archaeologists, founded in 1967, is a private firm based in Philadelphia that uses an interdisciplinary approach to help clients solve problems, and create plans that get built.
is a grassroots, non-profit, community-based organization with a mission to preserve, protect, and promote Chinatown as a viable ethnic, residential, and business community.
promotes understanding of and action on important issues facing the Philadelphia Region. It funds proposals from nonprofit organizations working in Arts and Culture; Children, Youth, and Families; and Environment and Communities, and it seeks dialogue with organizations and others concerned about our communities.
