Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a scenic avenue that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia. Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ...

In a city famous for its planning, the Parkway represents one of the earliest examples of urban renewal in the United States. The road was constructed to ease heavy industrial congestion in Center City and to restore Philadelphia's natural and artistic beauty. Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ... Downtown Philadelphia This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ...

Named for favorite son Benjamin Franklin, the Parkway is a mile-long diagonal roadway that cuts across grid pattern of Center City's Northwest quadrant (similar, for example, to Washington, D.C.'s street pattern). Some of the most famous sites in Philadelphia are visible here: City Hall, one block southeast from its starting point; Swann Fountain, which it encircles in Logan Circle; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art at its ending point, where the parkway provides access to Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park and the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76). For its international flavor and artistic landmarks, the Parkway has been dubbed "a slice of Paris in Philadelphia." Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1777 For the former mayor of Nepean, see Ben Franklin (politician) Dr. Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American printer, journalist, publisher, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, public servant, scientist, librarian, diplomat and inventor. ... GRID can refer to : GRID computing short for gay-related immune deficiency, a former name for AIDS. See also homosexuality and medical science General Repository for Interaction Datasets, a database of biological interactions hosted at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... Washington, D.C., short for the District of Columbia (also known as the the District or, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. ... Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Logan Circle is the urban park of Center City Philadelphias northwest quadrant and one of the five original squares laid out on the city grid. ... The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ... Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is one of the largest municipal public parks in the world, at over 9,100 acres (37 km²). This figure includes all parkland within the city limits, as all 65 city parks are considered part of Fairmount Park and overseen by the Fairmount Park Commission... The Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) runs along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...