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Up from below on a #williampennwednesday. #billypennwednesday #cityhall #cityscenes #cityscape #Philly #Philadelphia #centercityphilly #igers_philly #whyilovephilly #visitphilly #roundaboutcities

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Trolley entrance to the trolley. #Philadelphia #Philly #whyilovephilly #visitphilly #westphilly #universitycity #septa #iseptaphilly #igers_philly #trolley

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Race Street Pier. #Philly #Philadelphia #whyilovephilly #visitphilly #Delawareriver #roundaboutcities #cityscenes #cityscape

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The Woodlands. #Philly #Philadelphia #westphilly #thewoodlands #phillyhistory #roundaboutcities

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#Philly #Philadelphia #whyilovephilly #visitphilly #patco #benfranklin #benfranklinbridge #cityscenes cityscape #roundaboutcities

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Where you off to with all that fancy fossil fuel? #Philly #Philadelphia #Schuylkillbanks #schuylkillriver #igers_philly #roundaboutcities #cityscape #cityscenes

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Penns Landing Post Office, South 4th St, Philadelphia. #Philly #Philadelphia #postoffice #thepostalproject #southphilly #roundaboutcities #cityscape #cityscenes #ig_city

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Water front uses ebe and flow. Municipal Pier from a past age. #Philly #Philadelphia #roundaboutcities #cityscape #cityscenes #riverfront #delawareriver #ig_city

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The city is only apparently homogeneous. Even its name takes on a different sound from one district to the next.

Walter Benjamin

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Gloria Dei- Old Swedes'- Church. #Philly #Philadelphia #visitphilly #phillyhistory #cityscape #churches #colonialphilly #roundaboutcities

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Shipping and receiving at the main Portland, OR post office. #Portland #pdx #postoffice #thepostalproject #cityscape #citystreets #roundaboutcities #ig_city

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San Francisco wanderings. #cityscape #citystreets #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscohills #ig_city #instacity #roundaboutcities

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The United States Post Office-Main Branch in Philadelphia, PA. From this view you can see that is was built above ground level, with train lines, and later Interstate 76, underneath. It is now been converted to the regional headquarters for the IRS. #Philly #Philadelphia #phillyhistory #postoffice #cityscape #cityscenes #roundaboutcities #citystreets

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The seat of city government in Los Angeles, completed in 1928. Concrete for the tower was made with sand from each of California's 58 counties and water from that state's 21 missions. #cityhall #losangeles #la #California #roundaboutcities #cityscape #cityscenes

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Passyunk rowhouses. #Philly #phillyrowhouses #rowhouses #southphilly #Philadelphia #roundaboutcities

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Sunset on Jefferson Square. #Jeffersonsquare #Philly #southphilly #myphillypark #whyilovephilly #Philadelphia

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But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their own culture and world view in every street and building. And yet to be successful a city has to be open to continuous development, free to evolve and grow with the demands of new times. Like science fiction accounts of the future, ideal cities quickly become outmoded.

P.D. Smith, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age