Committing Urban Principles To Stone
30 July 2002 - 2:00pm
Do today's city dwellers have the confidence to carve their highest principles in stone?
Philadelphia's 100-year-old City Hall is the largest seat of municipal government ever constructed and the world's most sculptured building, boasting 250 marble statutes and the 37-foot figure of William Penn towering 500 feet above the sidewalk. Yet three of the four main portals have blank scrolls above the keystones. What virtues would we add to the one, "Justice", carved on the south portal by our urban ancestors?
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The Philadelphia Daily News, July 30, 2002
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