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Originally Posted by jsbrook
Things are different. Worse in some ways. Better in others. Back then, they may have spent more on infrastructure like bridges. But I'm pretty sure they would have been scratching their heads and balking at expenditures on public spaces, greening of the city, popup parks, bike lanes, and the Philadelphia Rail Park.
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Oh, I completely agree. I mean that era would make a modern day capitalist blush. Where the city spent money, they spent it with profit in mind. I think back then cities really competed with each other architecturally in a brazen way that only Middle Eastern and Asian cities do today. To build a lot of those feats a city can't really have a conscience. Even where price isn't an object, labor laws really restrict (and rightly so) America's ability to build a lot of the things we did in the late 1800s.
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Originally Posted by stache
Philly is very good at large public spaces.
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We are now, absolutely. Probably one of the best in the country.