Germany’s open-air drug market remains a ‘vibrant community space’. What can Philly learn from it?

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Berlin has prevented drug use from taking over its public spaces. Here are several factors that may explain why.

Given that description, part of me was bracing for a German version of Kensington. When I arrived at the edge of the massive 35-acre meadow in Berlin’s trendy Kreuzberg district, for a second, I thought it fit the bill. Groups of dealers openly hustled cocaine, heroin, and weed at the park gates.Inside

It was a neat microcosm of the international life and social tolerance for which the German capital is famous. But to my Philadelphia brain, it also felt like a daydream — something unimaginable in Kensington, where a

 

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