Posts tagged with “Louis Mumford”

18 Feet of Entitlement

19 July 2011

It is 18 feet. Hard packed dirt, utilities, cobblestones, layers of petroleum lummed into blacktop. And now it is smoking. I am not, I can assure you after collecting another trove of petition signatures in an attempt to force what should have happened long ago, a zoning hearing, the only angry one. One is entitled to being oblivious, but not also insidious and greedy.

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Here Is The Possible City

21 September 2007 | Philly Skyline

It may be that all cities require people to dream, but in Philadelphia imagining a new city is the singular act of citizenship. We’re all of us ever-wondering what might be. We dream so intensely because we see the glowing possibility.

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