Philadelphia and the Countryside - Press Room

Philadelphia is committed to the environment, as evidenced by Mayor Michael Nutter’s appointment of a director of sustainability in 2008. The position develops, implements and oversees the city’s environmental policies and initiatives to deliver the mayor’s promise to make Philadelphia the greenest city in America. The new position is just

This is a DesignPhiladelphia press release.

It’s a banner year for DesignPhiladelphia (DP), the festival that spotlights all things design from architecture to interior design, fashion to product design, textile to graphic design. With over 90 events, DesignPhiladelphia is the largest event of its kind in America. From Thursday, October

Philadelphia has recently seen the addition of three major new buildings, the Comcast Center (standing 57 stories high but still under construction), the Cira Centre and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman building. These architectural additions, along with other modern constructions, blend with Colonial-style buildings as

Laid out into a neat grid by city planner William Penn, Philadelphia naturally lends itself to smart design. Visitors can wander from the glittering Avenue of the Arts to the workaday Italian Market and from the cozy cobblestone streets of Old City to the industrial and hip sidewalks of Northern