The Bright Side of Blight
01/24/2011 |
The New York Times
By Diana Lind, Op-Ed Contributor
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. Read more
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