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Originally Posted by mja
I don't know that Philly fits into this paradigm. Technically, it's both. Market St splits the city up N/S while Broad does the same thing W/E. But even that's not a good way to really think about the city.
Racially, if you look at maps of the city that measure that, you actually see more of an E/W divide then a N/S, despite what you might immediately think of North Philly vs. South Philly, but even that's not quite as simple. The city is more of a patchwork quilt with each patch feeling distinct from the others.
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Sure, breaking Philly down (or really city for that matter) into much greater detail, you're going to lose the broad directional splits that this thread topic is inquiring about. Is it split more along N-S lines or E-W lines? That was the thread question. The answer for Philadelphia is undoubtedly N-S.
The North Philly-South Philly general classification is the dominant geographical split of the city -- it is more split N-S than it is E-W. There are certainly historical neighborhood cultural/ethnic/economic identities that go along with this construct, but it is also how the city itself classifies things on the
broad scale for mapping infrastructure, housing, tax, etc... and by city, I mean the City of Philadelphia, PGW, PECO, PHA, and others.
Additionally, West Philly doesn't have an "East Philly" counterpart (well, Camden
). So while, it's certainly a distinct reference area from South and North Philly, it is nonetheless still technically classified within the general N-S construct.