Window Seats

Fluffia, June 2009





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This is a transect, beginning near the North Philadelphia SEPTA station, going south-southwest to the Rodin Museum near Logan Square, and eventually winding up at Penn's Landing and the Old City.  June, 2009.  Some of the visible imprints of thirty years (or more) of deindustrialization are evocative of Vergara's observations:  "Accepting the ghetto as home poses a tremendous paradox for people angry about the condition of their surroundings yet afraid of being blamed for causing it.  Many residents recollect a time when the neighborhood was better.  They are often torn between fond memories of how things once were, and their current desire to have the problems of the place exposed."  Camilo Jose Vergara (1995).  The New American Ghetto.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, p. 7.
For high-resolution versions of these images, look for filenames fluff001.jpg to fluff156.jpg, in the cityimage directory.