A critic such as Frederick Ackerman in 1925 could dryly note that “a community with a stable population is now referred to as a dead one.” Interestingly, this was in a paper titled “Our Stake in Urban Congestion,” noting that contemporary proposals to “solve” urban congestion by building elevated and limited access highways would kill the golden goose, which is based on the ability to tax the increases in land value and specialized transactions that cities create.
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