Several years ago I ran across Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson's book The Code of the Street, a study of how people negotiate street-level interactions in urban areas. The book is a follow-up to his earlier study Streetwise, which, though fictionalized, is clearly based on West Philadelphia's Powelton Village and Mantua neighborhoods. The Code of the Street begins with a sociological tour of Germantown Avenue, beginning in the affluent Chestnut Hill neighborhood and working towards the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of North Philadelphia. Given the tremendous socioeconomic diversity found along theMore recently I came across a short video created by students at Rutgers Camden in a course on social stratification. Students James Flatley and Etienne Jackson, who were studying The Code of the Street in their class, created a video tour of Germantown Avenue in order to illustrate the introduction to Anderson's book. The result is a brief but insightful portrayal of Northwest Philadelphia, worth a look.
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