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Epiphany on South Street: Smartphones are hollowing out city life
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Epiphany on South Street: Smartphones are hollowing out city life

Tristan L Potter
The Philadelphia inquirer
05 May 2026
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Abstract

Smartphones Urban Sociology
The cost of having a mobile device always at hand is a degraded version of urban public life, a spreading sense of social isolation in one of the densest cities in the country.

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