Neighborhood Forum Summaries

About the summaries

These sessions, kicking off a yearlong project on the mayor's race, asked participants to imagine it is the year 2010. Places Rated Almanac has just named Philadelphia the nation's most livable city. Oprah Winfrey is going to do a show asking Philadelphia residents to talk about how their city improved since the turn of the century, who made it happen and how the money and energy were found.

Several participants in the forum played the role of panelists on the show, talking about how Philadelphia improved. The rest played the studio audience, asking skeptical, probing questions.

Citizen Voices '99: They come, they talk, they care (Feb. 14)

Philadelphians dream of a future and begin to plot the way there (Feb. 11)

Philadelphians talking straight on how they feel about their city (Jan. 14)

What Citizen Voices groups are saying

Frankford/Mayfair/Oxford Circle forum, Frankford Hospital (Jan. 11)

Bustleton/Somerton/Byberry forum, Jewish Community Center Klein Branch (Jan. 12)

Far Northeast neighborhoods forum (east of the Boulevard), Holy Family College (Jan. 13)

Manayunk/Roxborough forum, North Light Community Center (Jan. 16)

Oak Lanes forum, Korean United Presbyterian Church (Jan. 16)

Center City / Northern Liberties forum, The Inquirer building (Jan. 17)

Burholme/Fox Chase forum, United Methodist Church of the Redeemer (Jan. 18)

Chestnut Hill / Mount Airy forum, St. Martin's in the Fields Episcopal Church (Jan. 19)

South Philadelphia - West neighborhoods forum, St. Anthony de Padua Catholic Church, (Jan. 20)

University City forum, Intercultural Family Services (Jan. 21)

Olney/Logan/Feltonville forum, La Salle University (Jan. 23)

Nicetown/Tioga/North Central Philadelphia forum, Church of the Advocate (Jan. 23)

Kensington forum, St. Adalbert's Catholic Church, (Jan. 24)

South Philadelphia - East neighborhoods forum, St. Maria Goretti High School (Jan. 25)

Spanish Language forum, Norris Square Community Center (Jan. 26)

West Philadelphia forum, Mercy Hospital (Jan. 27)

Overbrook/Wynnefield/City Avenue forum, St. Joseph's University (Jan. 27)

Germantown forum, Germantown Friends School (Jan. 28)

Southwest Philadelphia forum, Hickman Temple (Jan. 30)