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Walking down Broad Street to the Allegheny stop one evening, Phillyist was deep in conversation about the psychology of cities. Discussing the El, when it is actually an El, one person remarked “No wonder people get depressed in Kensington, they can’t see the sun!” Philadelphia based artist Edward Epstein might agree. His new site-specific installation, City Without Expressways, presented by InLiquid.com at the Crane Arts Building, looks at the ways in which the building of our beloved highways has affected the city and its dwellers. Specifically, he is concerned with how the reshaping of public space that happened with the construction of the Vine and Schuylkill Expressways and Interstate 95 has made many parts of Philadelphia “inhospitable to humans” and seems to indicate that we are more focused on the comfort of cars than people (the title of this post is his quote). This installation includes printed images on large canvas with transparencies, which allow the landscape to be changed and morphed to reflect overlays of memories and meaning. We were thinking he should tackle public transport next, but he’s already beaten us to it with his Means of Transport series of drawings. We’d like to know what he’d say about Kensington though.