How to Reuse a Power Plant
The Delaware Power Station in Philadelphia is a decommissioned power plant on the banks of the Delaware River. It’s isolated from the rest of the city and is a large, bulking structure—a piece of infrastructure constructed for the twentieth century’s industrial age with no obvious reuse option for 2016. This power station, along with the many other empty or abandoned industrial buildings in now postindustrial cities such as Philadelphia, raises the question: do cities need their old buildings?
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