Category philly urban living

Is Marathon’s urban farm concept a model for other US cities?

After reading more about the Marathon Farm project, my immediate answer was yes. It fills in a vacant lot, creates jobs, provides fresh food to a lower income neighborhood, and it’s a great way for a local business to give back to the community.
This article should also help shed some light on the “when,” “where,” and “why.”

Bigger and Smarter

 

This is how the City of Philadelphia was recently described by Mayor Michael Nutter.
Our population has officially been increasing over the last few years (and also over the last decade, for the first time in half a century), our institutions of higher learning are expanding, and IBM has selected Philadelphia as a recipient of their “Smarter Cities” grant.
Good news all around.