The Bright Side of Blight in Kensington: New York Times

Former Next American Cities editor Diane Lind writes an op-en in the New York Times on blight in Kensington: EVEN in Philadelphia, with its 40,000 vacant properties and a quarter of its population living below the poverty line, the Kensington neighborhood still shocks. On a frigid afternoon, a prostitute lingers in the shadow of the […]

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Feb 18, 2011 10:30am

Former Next American Cities editor Diane Lind writes an op-en in the New York Times on blight in Kensington:

EVEN in Philadelphia, with its 40,000 vacant properties and a quarter of its population living below the poverty line, the Kensington neighborhood still shocks. On a frigid afternoon, a prostitute lingers in the shadow of the elevated train tracks, waiting restlessly for customers. Husks of long-closed factories stand amid thigh-high winter wheat. Streams of garbage flow down the streets, as if both the people and the city government had agreed to forsake the effort of propriety.

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