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DAG members advocate for better design in Philadelphia through many of the city's daily newspapers.

Recent DAG Archives

Date

Title

Topic

Author

Affiliation

11/02/05

To Plan or Not to Plan

Citywide Planning

Harris Steinberg

DAG

08/10/05

Communities Must Review Projects

Citywide development

Ed Bronstein and Tim Kerner

DAG

07/27/05

A Design for Living...With Casinos

Gambling Venues

Bill Becker

DAG

07/27/05

Move Quickly on a Plan

The Waterfront

Alan Greenberger

DAG

07/24/05

A Solid Plan Must Come First for the Waterfront

The Waterfront

Harris Steinberg

DAG

CitySpace, a weekly column in the Philadelphia City Paper, was co-founded by the Design Advocacy Group and the City Paper in September 2002. Conceived as a unique weekly forum on design, planning and urbanism, CitySpace offered Philadelphia a robust conversation about the pitfalls and potential for achieving design excellence in the built environment.

Running continuously from September 2002 through December 2004, DAG was the primary contributor and editor of the column - drawing on the depth of volunteer talent and experience within its ranks to produce an offering of over 115 columns. Under DAG's leadership, CitySpace produced significant thought-pieces on urbanism as it helped frame the civic discourse on important topics from the future of Penn's Landing on the Delaware River to the role of art in the public realm. The success of CitySpace contributed to AIA Philadelphia awarding the 2004 Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism to DAG.

DAG in CitySpace Archives

Date	Title	Topic	Author	Affiliation
9/19/02	Find the Pony	Penn’s Landing	Harris Steinberg	DAG
9/26/02	Size Does Matter	Convention Center	Bill Becker	DAG
10/3/02	The Asphalt Jungle	Parking	Steve Conn	DAG
10/10/02	Jeff Cap	Jefferson Garage	Harris Steinberg	DAG
10/17/02	Philly by the Numbers	Numbered Streets	Alan Greenberger	DAG
10/24/02	From Blight to Right	NTI	Patrick Starr	DAG
10/31/02	Lessons from Europe	Models for Philadelphia	Charlie Thomson	DAG
11/07/02	Happy and Car-Free	Mass Transit	Bob Ravelli	City Paper
11/14/02	National Pride	Historic Preservation	Daniel Brook	City Paper
11/21/02	Palms Away	Neighborhood Retail	Daniel Brook	City Paper
11/28/02	Ballpark Frank	The Stadium Neighborhood	Steve Conn	DAG
12/03/02	Cutting Corners	Neighborhood Development	Harris Steinberg	DAG
12/12/02	Lucky 13	Goldman Properties	Patrick Starr	DAG
12/19/02	Transformers	CDC’s	Sue Sierra	DAG
12/26/02	Corral OK	Honor Boxes	Alan Greenberger	DAG
01/02/03	Go Low	Public Housing	Daniel Brook	City Paper
01/09/03	Looking for Excitement	Public Spaces @ City Hall	George Claflen	DAG
01/16/03	River Phoenix	Schuylkill Expressway	Steve Conn	DAG
01/23/02	The Odyssey	Parking Authority Signage	Alan Greenberger	DAG
01/30/03	Landing a Message	Riverfront Development	Patrick Starr	DAG
02/06/03	Big Shoulders, Big Ideas	Chicago	Joanne Aitken	DAG
02/13/03	Walnut Street Blues	Bike Traffic	Steve Conn	DAG
02/20/03	Truly Abele	Julian Abele	Deborah Bolling	City Paper
02/27/03	Ogontz Part II	Commercial Strips	Sue Sierra	DAG
03/06/03	Break Up the Car Culture Club	Mass Transit	Daniel Brook	City Paper
03/13/03	High Hopes	Pennsylvania Plaza	Harris Steinberg	DAG
03/20/03	Tree-mendous Assets	Street Trees	Joanne Aitken	DAG
03/27/03	Art Houses	Cultural Institutions	Steven Conn	DAG
04/03/03	Boyds of a Feather	Boyd Theatre	Patrick Starr	DAG
04/10/03	Raising the Bar	Small Changes	Alan Greenberger	DAG
04/17/03	Bloat on the Water	St. Joes Boat House	Harris Steinberg	DAG
04/24/03	Crass Transit	Septa Cuts	Daniel Brook	City Paper
05/01/03	DAG Would!	DAG Forum	Dan Kelley	DAG
05/08/03	Future Perfect	Preservation and Econ. Dev.	John Andrew Gallery	DAG
05/15/03	Easement Does It	Preservation	J. Randall Cotton	DAG
05/22/03	Inside Out	Preservation	John Andrew Gallery	DAG
05/29/03	The Past Menagerie	Historic Districts	Paul Steinke	DAG
06/05/03	Towering Legacy	Bill Rouse	John Claypool	City Paper
06/12/03	Bell’s Hell	Liberty Bell Pavilion	John Andrew Gallery	City Paper
06/19/03	Can’t Get There From Here	Walkability	Steve Conn	DAG
06/26/03	A Trolley Good System	Trolley Commute	Joanne Aitken	DAG
07/03/03	Paradise Under the El	New Kensington CDC	Sue Sierra	DAG
07/10/03	Chain Reaction	Chains	Daniel Brook	City Paper
07/17/03	Brick Louse	Bureaucracy	Alan Greenberger	DAG
07/24/03	Convertible Living	Apartment Conversions	Patrick Starr	DAG
07/31/03	Center City's Crotchety Dragon	Chinatown Housing	Helen i-lin Hwang	City Paper
08/07/03	Green Acres	Urban Gardens	Michael Firkus	City Paper
08/14/03	Declaration of Inter-dependence	Institutional Change	Steve Conn	DAG
08/21/03	Word House	Constitution Center	Harris Steinberg	DAG
08/28/03	Market Least	Market East	Bruce Anderson	DAG
09/04/04	Golden Opportunity	Latino 5^th Street	Sue Sierra	DAG
09/11/03	Designing Men and Women	DAG POP II	Steve Conn	DAG
09/18/03	Happy Anniversary	1^st Anniversary Issue	Alan Greenberger	DAG
09/25/03	Broad Way of Life	Broad Street	Robert Skaler	City Paper
10/02/03	Square Root	Filming in Center City	Mary Patel	City Paper
10/09/03	Bell Jarred	Liberty Bell Controversy	Deborah Bolling	City Paper
10/16/03	Penn Pandering	Development Proposals	Steve Conn	DAG
10/23/03	Sign Us Up	Signage	Joanne Aitken	DAG
10/31/03	Wharf Rat	The Public Realm	Harris Steinberg	DAG
11/06/03	The New Urbanism	New Urbanism	Joe Maitje	DAG
11/13/03	The Five Questions	Penn’s Landing	Todd Bressi	DAG
11/20/03	The Path of Kahn	My Architect	Harris Steinberg	DAG
11/27/03	Killing the Golden Goose	Urban Uniqueness	Mitchell Gordon	City Paper
12/04/03	Futurama	Selling the Future	Nora Barry	City Paper
12/11/03	Thinking Large	Masterman ideas	Steve Conn	DAG
12/18/03	Green Design: An Urban Fit	Environmentalism	Joe Maitje and Todd Woodward	DAG
12/25/03	That Dirty Word	Gentrification	Steve Conn	DAG
01/01/04	Plums and Lumps	Best and Worst of 2003	Bill Becker and Alan Greenberger	DAG
01/08/04	On the Right Track	Women’s Com. Rev. Project	Sue Sierra	DAG
01/15/04	Hall Monitor	The City in Microcosm	Joanne Aitkens	DAG
01/22/04	Suburbanizing Downtown	Sub-urban development	Amy Webb	City Paper
01/29/04	Disappearing Act	Vanishing public space	Amy Webb	City Paper
02/05/04	State of the State	Brookings Report	Bruce Andersen	DAG
02/12/04	Victory on Chestnut	Victory Building restoration	Patrick Starr	DAG
02/19/04	El of an Opportunity	Transit Dev. Policy	Paul Steinke	DAG
02/26/04	The Social Life of Design	Community Design	Todd Woodward	DAG
03/04/04	Get Your Damn Car off the Sidewalk	Parking	Steve Conn	DAG
03/11/04	Save our Structures	Blackwell’s Bill	Joanne Aitken	DAG
03/18/04	A Jury of Peers	Politics and Preservation	Amy Webb	City Paper
03/25/04	Centennial City	Centennial BID	Bruce Anderson	DAG
04/01/04	Divine Accommodation	Divine Tracy Hotel	Deborah Bolling	City Paper
04/08/04	None in the Hand	North 13th	Steve Conn	DAG
04/15/04	Imitating Art	Hack as allegory	Harris Steinberg	DAG
04/22/04	Our Field of Dreams	Citizen Bank Park	Harris Steinberg	DAG
04/29/04	Walk this Way	Walking Tours	CCD	DAG
05/06/04	What’s Historic	Preservation	John Gallery	Preservation Allianc
05/13/04	Guilding Philly	Preservation	John Gallery	Preservation Allianc
05/20/04	This Old House	Preservation	Paul Steinke	Preservation Allianc
05/27/04	In Front of the Eight Ball	Preservation	John Gallery	Preservation Allianc
06/03/04	Breaking Ground	Modern Housing	Joanne Aitken	DAG
06/10/04	A Tale of Two River Lines	River Line Transit	Steve Conn	DAG
06/17/04	Mixed Uses	Mt. Airy USA	Sue Sierra	DAG
06/24/04	Unconventional Development	Convention Center Expansion	Angie Liou	DAG
07/01/04	Forlorn Franklin Square	Franklin Square	Steve Conn	DAG
07/08/04	Pay to Play and Billy Penn’s Feet	Zoning	Patrick Starr	DAG
07/15/04	Preservation in Practice	Preservation	Gersil Kay	City Paper
07/22/04	Building Bridges	Viaduct	Kyle Gradinger	DAG
07/29/04	Terminal Hope	Transit Oriented Development	Rebecca Bellville
08/05/04	Philly Royalty	Queen Village	Joe Matje	DAG
08/12/04	The Philadelphian	Museum	Bruce Anderson
08/19/04	Design for Dummies	Democratic Design	Steve Conn	DAG
08/26/04	River Bend	Waterfront Development	Alan Greenberger	DAG
09/02/04	Forget Paris	Public Sculpture	Joanne Aitken	DAG
09/09/04	Defining the City's Image	Signature Urban Objects	Josh Markel	DAG
09/16/04	Finding Good in What's Old	John Russell Pope	Jim Garrison	DAG
09/23/04	The New Urbanism	New Urbanist Confrence	Sandy Sorlien	City Paper
09/30/04	Cyber Cities	Wireless Philadelphia	Amy L. Webb	City Paper
10/07/04	Open Studio Sessions	Philadelphia Open Studio Tours	Joanne Aitken	DAG
10/14/04	Altruistic	Public Architecture	Linda Dottor	City Paper
10/21/04	Get Smarter	Smart Growth Alliance	Jonas Raab	City Paper
10/28/04	Bus Fuss	SEPTA	Gregory Heller	City Paper
11/04/04	What’s Old Can be New	The Architectural Past	Gersil Kay	DAG
11/11/04	Pitch Location	WXPN	Steven Conn	DAG
11/18/04	Park Place	Memorial Hall	Harris Steinberg	DAG
11/25/04	Not Yet Within Reach	Gaps in the Urban Fabric	Alan Greenberger	DAG
12/02/04	See Spans	Beautiful Bridges	Joanne Aitken	DAG