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Philadelphia is an important part of the
Temple University experience. Every academic program is enhanced
by the cultural and intellectual life of the nation's fifth largest
city. Besides that, Philadelphia is a fun place, adding to the
University's alrea dy rich array of things to do when you put
your books away.
Alive with Innovation
The Philadelphia story is expanding. Yes, history is still an
important part of the city's image and significance, but time
didn't stop when John Hancock put down his quill pen at Independence
Hall. As the second largest city on the east coast, Philadelph
ia is at the center of a region alive with innovation in commerce
and finance, technological and scientific advancement, achievement
in medicine and law, and accomplishment in the arts.
Speaking of the arts, Philadelphia's
Broad Street has been transformed into an axis of theaters, galleries,
and performance spaces. The Avenue of the Arts, as it is known,
is a ribbon of creativity winding from South Philadelphia, wrapping
around City Hal l, and continuing north through Temple's Main
Campus. There, it winds past the newly refurbished Rock Hall,
an acclaimed chamber music space. Moving north, it passes the
University's Esther Boyer School of Music, the School of Communications
and Theater, and WRTI radio, Temple's nationally known jazz station,
and then reaches almost into Elkins Park, where Temple's Tyler
School of Art has trained world class visual artists for more
than 60 years.
City of Excitement
Back in Center City, if you travel east of the Avenue of the Arts,
you traverse a district well known to shoppers, convention visitors,
tourists and historians: Market Street East. Here, you'll find
the Reading Terminal Market, the Pennsylvania Convention Center,
a smorgasbord of restaurants, and the Liberty Bell. Continue east
on Market and you come to Penn's Landing, a scenic boulevard at
the edge of the Delaware River splashed with clubs and restaurants.
Add to these possibilities Fairmount Park, the nation's largest
landscaped city park, the reknowned Philadelphia Museum of Art,
the nightlife of South Street, the Flyers, Eagles, Phillies, 76ers,
and a mosaic of vibrant neighborhoods, and you can see why Temple
University is happy to call Philadelphia home.
Philadelphia links of interest
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