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In West Poplar, A Reminder Of The Limits Of Small Scale Change
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In West Poplar, A Reminder Of The Limits Of Small Scale Change

With urban renewal at mid-flight in the 1960s, neighbors in lower North Philadelphia’s West Poplar banded together to build a park from the ground up. But, as Anna Goodman describes, without city assistance, it wasn’t built to last

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Marking Time–And Place–In North Philadelphia

All across the city are painted signs–some new, many hundreds faded or all but disappeared. Late last year Mural Arts and Temple Contemporary set out to revive one–for the Henssler Lock Company, a multi-generation storefront locksmith in North Philly. Meredith Nutting captures the place–at 115 years old the oldest surviving locksmith in the city–on video


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