Sebastian Agudelo's second book engages a documentary poetics to dissect
an inner city neighborhood and explore the social, political, and
economic tensions and affinities as well as search for the humanness of
living together. The book is bracketed by an introductory section that
looks to the past to contextualize and complicate the contemporary
questions, and a closing section that looks to the future for a more
global and environmental definition of what a neighbor might be. As
Daisy Fried writes, "Each Chartered Street is a complicated, wonderful,
humanist book about urban life and urban characters, novelistic in its
reach, intricate in its lingo, literary in its references, and alive to
the troubled streets of Philadelphia. Do put it on your list."