The Old York Road Revitalization Group is the latest effort to improve and promote an aging community on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Many inner-ring communities are dealing with aging infrastructures, older housing, virtually no space for newer development and stagnant tax bases, said Carolyn Adams, a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple. The Old York Road corridor is lucky because it has an educated and activist community that is "more ready and willing to mobilize than [some residents in] other parts of the region facing similar issues," Adams said.