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see also: Mason Gaffney: New Life for Old Cities, available online at http://www.masongaffney.org/ or in hardcopy from http://www.schalkenbach.org/

Charles B. Fillebrown: A Catechism of Natural Taxation, from Principles of Natural Taxation (1917)

Q52. In old cities, it is not nearly all the land in use?
A. About one half the area of New York and Chicago is classed by the assessors as vacant. In Boston the proportion is: occupied, 45 percent; vacant, 43 percent; marsh, 12 percent. ... read the whole article

 

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