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• The Daily Report

  The Architecture of Morale

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Nov 7th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, annette john-hall, savage inequalities, alain de botton, west philadelphia high school, the architecture of happiness, jonathan kozol, dallas housing | 0

  Can a crumbling institution truly be improved by something as simple as a fresh coat of paint? Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer thinks so. Yesterday, she wrote that spiffed-up hallways, newly painted lockers, repaired windows, and a closed-down third floor has turned notorious West Philadelphia High School into a place where people “actually want to learn.”

  Alain De Botton writes in The Architecture of Happiness that “buildings speak—and on topics which can readily be…

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  Philadelphia—city of ellipses, city of what-ifs

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Oct 12th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, violence, ear infections, annette john-hall, south bronx | 1

  There’s something profoundly amiss in Philadelphia.

  Being no stranger to the realities of urban living, I don’t say this lightly. But its resoundingly clear that while the cogs are in place, the machine doesn’t seem to be working quite right. Or even at all.

  It’s not that I’m some sort of hardened veteran. Chances are, I’ll never witness some of the horrors taking place in our neglected urban spaces. However, I would cringe at an accusation of naivete. When I was young, I had…

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