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Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue | Inga Saffron

Because Philadelphia’s premier hospital district has prioritized easy car access, it has been slow to create public spaces where essential workers can go to decompress.

A bird's eye view of Penn Medicine’s new in-patient building, located next to the Penn Museum (lower left). A pocket park marks the entrance to the rapidly growing, and car-dominated, hospital district shared by Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
A bird's eye view of Penn Medicine’s new in-patient building, located next to the Penn Museum (lower left). A pocket park marks the entrance to the rapidly growing, and car-dominated, hospital district shared by Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.Read morePenn Medicine
    by Inga Saffron | Columnist
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