Placemaking at the Porch

An illustrative guide to the use of a new public space

Philadelphia’s University City District (UCD) invited us to digest and synthesize the copious data they had collected on how people were using a new public space, The Porch, situated at the doorstep of Amtrak’s 30th Street Station.

Using illustration to bring the data to life, we developed a graphic report on lessons learned and design principles to inform a more capital-intensive, long-term master plan for The Porch.  The book received kudos from The Atlantic Cities and Philadelphia Magazine, which called the report “the Fun Dip of case studies.” Yum.