LOVE Park and the planner on a skateboard

The man who drew this plaza broke its rules at ninety-two.

Collection: Philadelphia · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

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How the story begins

At ninety-two, Edmund Bacon stepped on a skateboard while a police officer told him, "Don't do this." It was 28 October 2002. He was Philadelphia's former master planner, and he was standing in the plaza he had helped design. The idea went back to his student thesis of 1932. Skateboarders had made its granite famous. The city had banned them, and that year it had announced renovations meant to end the skating.

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