Sifting through our most-clicked stories of the year definitely tells a story about you, our readers.

You like when we talk big picture about the shifts and changes taking place in our city. You support your neighborhoods. You love to hear about individuals having a radical impact on their communities through hard work and innovation.You are deeply interested in witnessing the resurrection of our old-school commercial corridors. And you definitely love bragging to your friends about how cheaply a good time can be had in our fair city. 

Flying Kite is off for Christmas and New Year's. We hope to give you more of all those things you love next year. See you in 2013. 

1. Cost of Living: How Expensive is Philadelphia?
It's true: for a city of its size and geography, Philadelphia can be had on the cheap. It's no wonder artists, entrepreneurs and independent workers are making homes here. There is also a growing community of young people coming for school, and deciding to stay. And for entrepreneurs looking to test-drive an idea with low overhead and an adventurous clientele, the city offers an excellent option.

2. Meet four of Philadelphia's next-generation leaders
Among that group, leaders will arise and shape the city’s future. Flying Kite has identified four of those potential next-generation leaders. Whether they're improving schools, using technology to transform the city, shifting the political conversation or boosting the quality of life for local communities, all of them are ones to watch.

3. Name Game: Branding neighborhoods the Philly way
In this city, a single business, developer or community group can have a radical impact on an area's personality, even down to the name. Philadelphia is filled with places on the verge, trying to market themselves to the next city grant, young homebuyer or pioneering business -- they're all using the tools of branding, civic engagement and development to project an identity.

4. Are pieces finally in place for North Broad's renaissance?
The stretch of North Broad St. between Temple University and Spring Garden St. already plays an incredibly vital role in the ecosystem of Philadelphia. It connects students at one of the region's most prolific universities with jobs, recreation, and shopping in Center City. It is also a gateway for residents of North Philly and the northern suburbs to Flyers playoff games and other sporting and entertainment events at the stadiums. In spite of this, some of the blocks between Susquehanna Ave. and Spring Garden St. slump, victims of the world-class potential they can't quite seem to grasp. With this in mind, there are serious indications that this stretch of Broad St. is about to undergo a renaissance.

5. South Street West comes of age
Indeed, there has been steady new construction and rehabilitation all along the once-derelict blocks of western South Street from Broad to the Schuylkill River, in defiance of the recession and the closing of Graduate Hospital and accelerating with the 2010 reopening of the South Street Bridge. New infill projects punctuate the street. Real estate signs abound. Old storefronts are being remodeled, corrugated security gates going away, new casement windows flung open to the street and buildings painted.

6. What will be Philadelphia's next calling card? Technology, sustainability, food or the arts?
Through the course of [Flying Kite's] coverage during our own infancy, it is very clear that the city and region are on the verge of a paradigm shift. We have identified four sectors – technology, sustainability, food and the arts – that appear ripe to vault past meds and eds as that which best represents Philadelphia. All four sectors have major assets, growth, talent and recent developments that promise to help create a new tagline for Philly.

7. Philly's fashion sense returns, and it looks and feels local
Karen Randal wants to see a 21st century revitalization of the manufacturing sector in Philadelphia. "The mission of the commerce department is to create jobs," Randal said. In her office, on the 12th floor of a municipal building near City Hall, Randal keeps a poster marking all the manufacturing businesses that once lived and thrived in Philadelphia city. Most of those businesses, such as Albert Nipon and Townsend Tuxedos, no longer manufacture in Philadelphia or have vastly scaled down production. "I'd like to replace every [defunct] business on that map with a new one," she says cheerfully. And the apparel industry may be a good place to start.

8. Triple Threat: Three philly social entrepreneurs to watch
Activism is great and all, but Collingswood, N.J., resident Hassen Saker was losing her drive. For several years, she had been volunteering in politics, but “activism wasn’t inspiring me; it was so frustrating,” Saker says. She wanted a more immediate, hands-on way to spark societal change, and the answer wasn’t more volunteer work. It was starting a business.

9. A Philadelphia homeless man's path to entrepreneurship
But something happened on the way to cookie paradise. Mercado eschewed culinary school – he got stuck on the more complex math – and followed some friends to Austin, TX, spending 17 years working the restaurant circuit and the party scene, developing a self-described functional drug addiction that saw him spend time in jail and drain his modest finances. It wasn't until Mercado returned north to Philadelphia, where he was laid off from Starbucks, that he was homeless, and at long last, an entrepreneur.

10. Traction Company: How 8 PAFA grads built the most dynamic art studio in the city
The sounds of mitre and table saws are audible through the open front gate.  Just behind the wooden slats, Kare Tonapetyan is rebuilding his trailer so that he and his girlfriend, Margaret can leave tomorrow for LA with his work and gear in tow.  The remaining six of the eight members of the Philadelphia Traction Company have just finished their weekly Friday meeting and are about to start their collaborative Friday work hours on building repairs and construction in the ever-evolving 19th century historic trolley manufacturing company.