Urban Elegance "What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty." - from "THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS" by ALAIN de BOTTON
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Haddonfield, 10 minutes East of Camden on PATCO Light Rail
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Elegant high density living offers the refreshing opportunity to experience social intercourse as an act of self-expansion not available in the sterility of suburbia or rural emptiness.
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Photographs of Philadelphia Neighborhoods Less Than 10 Minutes From Downtown
Camden
Back to "PATCO' MAIN LINE (Photos of Neighborhoods Surrounding PATCO High Speed Commuter Rail Stations in Philadelphia, Camden and South Jersey)
Urban renewal need not be expensive to be attractive. It need not have housing projects that look like they were built for a low-end suburban neighborhood and plopped down in the wrong place either. Classic Philadelphia row home architecture, much of it over 200 years old, maintains simple dignified elegance (and high real estate values) with just a touch of flowers under a window, well carved door and window frames, or a stained glass transom, artfully carved cornice, or other ornamentation and TLC. This is a simple prescription for Camden's rebirth.
Simple, unsubsidized, market rate and inexpensive rows of brick, block, masonry and marble mix, made elegant (and valuable) by the good tastes of the inhabitants, in secure safe neighborhoods, within walking distance of the connecting fibers of society and community: welcoming bookstores, clean comfortable coffee houses, row home galleries, crafts shops and eateries near clean, modern subways which connect to other hubs of regional and national transportation.
( All these pictures were taken in neighborhoods that were within one block of a Philadelphia PATCO station, connecting to downtown Camden less than 10 minutes away. For other PATCO station attractions and neighborhoods, click on "The PATCO Main Line" link.) As you can see, there is no more simple, inexpensive to build, yet appropriate urban residential architecture to resurrect Camden than the porchless row-home.
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