A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. 3601 Market St. — Ever wonder why the University City Science Center can’t seem to fill up…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. 2116-2124 Market St. — Oh, West Market Street in Center City. What did you do to…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com.  1001 Locust St. — Here’s a Dead-Asser that illustrates how much things have changed in good ol’…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. North of the entire 3000 and 3100 blocks of John F. Kennedy Boulevard It just keeps…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com.  Its pretty pitiful when a lot was more occupied in 1855 than it is now. This…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. Conjectural rendering inserted into an aerial photo from its time period. Original image from Google.  1777 John…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. This low-res corner of a picture from an unrelated dead-ass proposal is the only surviving picture of…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com.   Image from Google. The northwest, southwest and southeast corners of Fourth and Vine Streets — This…

A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena around Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com. The only known rendering of what could have been. 2100 Ben Franklin Parkway — This is one…