Subjects Urban Development

The Discovery Center: The creative reuse of an abandoned city reservoir

The ecology of Center City, Philadelphia (in case you didn’t know there was any)

This Philadelphia street scene, with dogs facing off with pigs for a pile of tasty garbage, was captured by artist Augustus Kollner in 1844, but would have been very familiar to 18th-century Philadelphians.

“Town street scavengers from life,” Kollner, 1844

The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)

Dock Creek Watson's Annals

Drawbridge and Dock Creek, Watson’s Annals