“...massive public investments in roads, storm severs, street lighting, curbs and cutters, playgrounds and schools were necessary for growth, and real-estate advertisements usually emphasized the availability of upgraded city facilities...they were usually paid for by public works departments rather than by the developers, especially after the 1890s. And not only were such improvements financed at general taxpayer expense, but their low-density sprawl involved numerous inefficiencies.” (131)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)