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Parking in Center City is dwindling, and the trend will only continue. Is Philly truly ready to embrace a less ­car-dependent downtown?

Tech Helps Planners Weigh Development, Historic Preservation A University of Pennsylvania project aims to make it easier for city planners to gauge resident preference for preserving historic homes against municipal needs for higher-density housing. May 28, 2021 •  Shutterstock/Spiroview Inc MetroLab Network has partnered with Government Technology  to bring its readers a segment called the MetroLab Innovation of the Month Series, which highlights impactful tech, data and innovation projects underway between cities and universities. If you’d like to learn more or contact the project...

Reviving Philadelphia’s nighttime economy Almost every aspect of urban life has been curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in Philadelphia and other big cities, the arts, culture, and nightlife sectors have taken a particularly painful hit. Museums and arts spaces have gone dark. Music venues have been kept from hosting concerts for much of the last year. And when they haven’t been closed entirely, bars and nightclubs have run at limited capacity, during shortened hours. Michael Fichman, researcher at PennPraxis. (Image: Courtesy of the Weitzman School...

How has COVID-19 changed ‘superstar cities’? A new analysis found that overall mobility in large U.S. cities has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and some are also experiencing changing segregation patterns, with potential implications that could last well beyond the pandemic. A new study, recently presented at the GISRUK conference, found that overall mobility in large U.S. cities has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels. Using tools from geographic information system (GIS) analysis and data science, geospatial researc...