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This 12 page paper discusses some of the problems and opportunities now facing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which in many ways is at the beginning of a renaissance. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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cities. But the city is determined to reinvent itself and become a place where all residents can live comfortably and prosper. This paper draws on comments from journalists who are
involved in the "Great Expectations" process and who have written about various aspects of city life to discuss Philadelphias concerns with such matters as crime, zoning, mass transit, drugs, alcohol,
homelessness and education. Introduction Philadelphia is known as the "City of Brotherly Love," but the name hardly seems to fit a city known for its violence, climbing murder
rate and other urban concerns. This paper explores some of the challenges facing the City of Philadelphia. Methodology Because the subject is broad and information is widely available, a simple
Internet search is the best place to start. Fortunately, the City of Philadelphia is in the midst of an effort to "reinvent" itself, and there is a great deal of
factual information at hand; in particular, there is a website called "Great Expectations: The Challenges Ahead" (http://www.greatexpectations07.com/challenges), which features numerous sub-sections. In each of those sections, professional journalists have written
articles on various aspects of the problems facing Philadelphia, and what the city is doing about them. We thus have almost all the information we need in one place.
Additional Internet searches provided the information on sections that Great Expectations did not cover, including drug and alcohol concerns, and homelessness. Literature Review Well turn now to some of the
information provided by the journalists mentioned earlier. Tom Ferrick of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the citys morning paper, provides information about crime in the city. He writes that he has studied
the dissertations, data, analyses and other information about why the crime rate dropped in the mid-1990s, only to conclude that the "experts" dont know the reason for the decline (Ferrick,
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