Earlier this month, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design hosted “The Philadelphia Story: Planning, Politics and Reality,” a panel discussion led by Loeb fellow and Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron.
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On Saturday, Germantown’s Vernon Park debuted its new rain garden as part of the citywide Love Your Park clean-up campaign.
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The green roof on PECO’s building in Center City (pictured above) is certainly one way that businesses practice good stormwater management.
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A feature story in this week’s issue of Time Magazine (above), “Street Smarts,” highlights America’s aging infrastructure crisis and Philadelphia’s “smarter” approach:
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The Philadelphia Water Department’s green infrastructure projects—tree trenches, rain gardens, porous paving and planters, just to name a few—are designed to store and infiltrate stormwater runoff into the ground.
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Last week, the American Society of Landscape Architects announced the winners of the 2011 Student Awards, and a conceptual design for Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, caught our eye.
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Wises Mill Run, a tributary of Wissahickon Creek, is a waterway that’s severely impacted by stormwater flows. After storms, the nearby neighborhood’s storm sewers discharge a large volume of water into Wises Mill Run, resulting in erosion of the creek’s bed.
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There’s no shortage of flooding stories in the region this week, all due to historic precipitation and flood-stage levels for the Delaware, Schuykill and many other waterways.
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On yesterday’s edition of Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, the topic of discussion was trees—planting and protecting Philadelphia’s trees from pests and diseases.
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We’ll have a more detailed post in the coming week concerning the performance of Philadelphia’s green stormwater infrastructure during Hurricane Irene, but the preliminary report from Percy Street—the city’s first porous street, unveiled in June—indicates a unanimous victory for this green project:
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