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mindstalk ([personal profile] mindstalk) wrote2019-04-19 11:45 pm

Philadelphia buildings

I'm staying in Fishtown/Kensington. Walking around, something seems odd about the urban fabric. My current analysis:

* No setback or front yards, buildings go straight up to the sidewalk. No grass strip by the curbs, either.
* Relatively narrow streets (side streets, not a boulevard like Girard), some just two lanes (one parking, one traffic) wide, some just an alley with narrow sidewalks.
* Wall to wall buildings, 2-3 stories, flat in both facade and roof (doesn't it snow here?) Boston buildings would have more bay windows, turrets, and other diversity; much less so here, whether old or new (which are REALLY flat. Tangentially, some of those show cracking concrete despite being like 10 years old.)

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