The book West Philadelphia a Study of Natural Social Areas was written by author William Wallace Weaver Here you can read free online of West Philadelphia a Study of Natural Social Areas book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is West Philadelphia a Study of Natural Social Areas a good or bad book?
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Fifty-second and Market Streets The development about the crossing of Fifty-second and Market Streets is a "section" rather than a community. It has only a brief history. It contains many diverse elements and there is practically no common tradition to unify the portions of the area at diagonally opposite extremes. For purposes of convenience there seems to be a geographic justi- fication for lumping these areas together, but the illusion of a community can hardly be maintained. The boundaries ...tentatively chosen for this area are, there- fore, likely to do violence to local tradition instead of serving it. The most satisfactory outline secured begins at the corner of Fifty-third Street and Baltimore Avenue, runs north on Fifty- West Philadelphia: A Study of Natural Social Areas 73 third Street to Cedar Avenue, west on Cedar Avenue to Fifty- sixth Street, north on Fifty -sixth Street to Market Street, east on Market Street to Fifty -fourth Street, north on Fifty -fourth Street to Westminster Avenue, east on Westminster Avenue to the ward line at Belmont Avenue and along the ward line south on Belmont Avenue and Forty-fourth Street to Haver- ford Road, along Haverford Road to Forty-sixth Street, on Forty -sixth Street to Market Street, on Market Street to Forty-fifth Street, along Forty-fifth Street to Baltimore Avenue and on Baltimore Avenue to Fifty-third Street at the point of beginning.
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