14 January 2009 | Philly Skyline
Cold air drifts across the pale branches of the London Plane trees that stand in front of the Youth Study Center. The building’s dull sandstone façade shrinks against the coming storm. Despite the hush, already demolition is underway.
7 January 2009 | Philly Skyline
Perhaps it was our perch — on the balcony of a factory being transformed into a “creative compound” — that gave me the feeling of eyeing a place left behind.
24 September 2008 | Philly Skyline
That’s a two year increase of 3%, significant given this long march of decline, and the first time in over six decades that the US Census reports Philadelphia’s population is growing.
12 June 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
A sense of loss pervades these Bosphorus hills. Pamuk calls it a “black mood shared by millions of people together.” But he explains that it’s consumed and projected by Istanbullus with pride and honor. “Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Istanbul; it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.”