Economy
The Unseen Philadelphia
The city’s outlying working and middle-class neighborhoods are beginning to look increasingly unstable.
This week, journalists, delegates, and activists from around the U.S. will swarm into Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention. The event itself will be held in the Wells Fargo Center, surrounded by an ocean of surface parking in South Philadelphia, while the walkable streets of Center City will be put to good use by activists and their law enforcement shadows.
Those who were last here in 2000, when the Republicans held their big party in the City of Brotherly Love, will see a city transformed. Although the revitalization of Center City had already begun by that point, it has since blossomed into a healthy urban core.