News and Perspectives

As one of the country’s largest funders of urban public space, we are eager to understand the extent to which existing research and evidence supports or refutes the assumptions guiding the Foundation’s public space grantmaking, and to build knowledge for...

Even in this era of constant federal rollbacks to our most deeply held environmental protections, a headline like the New York Times’ “ E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage into Rivers for Years to Come” from last Friday hits hard. The article...

This is an important civic moment for our city and state. Just five months from now, Pennsylvanians will have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to be included in the 2020 Census. An accurate census count signals the importance of each person. Population as...