Henry George, a key anti-urban thinker of the late Victorian era, envisioned using a land value tax to abolish cities and reverse urbanization. He believed in spreading the population evenly across the land to address economic and environmental issues caused by urbanization. George's followers today tend to favor density, but his original goal was to eliminate cities and distribute the population more evenly.
Henry George wanted to abolish cities and thought his land-value tax would do so George, a key anti-urban thinker of the late Victorian era, believed that urbanization was economically and environmentally unsustainable due to irrational land speculation. His seminal work,…
For the first 70 years of the Industrial Revolution, wages were basically flat. But urban conditions were worse than rural conditions. Thinkers of the time – Owen, Marx, Engels, and above all Henry George – decided it was time to abolish the city. https://t.co/F9OpSscIjT https://t.co/RDcZ9tcsQe
Henry George's followers today tend to love density. George himself explicitly wanted, by imposing a land value tax, to abolish the city and spread the population evenly across the land. Wow! https://t.co/tKusZDndTm
Many people on twitter have heard of Henry George and the idea of a Land Value Tax? However what did he did expect it do do? Well apparently reverse urbanisation and restore faith in the afterlife. More from me and @WorksInProgMag . https://t.co/rQZmLsOtAn
How Henry George envisaged the land value tax as a way to abolish cities. New from Works in Progress by @watling_samuel. https://t.co/oemZHz29ld
Henry George and the campaign to abolish the city. New from Works in Progress's @watling_samuel. https://t.co/oemZHz29ld