“By the 1890s engineering publications were hypothesizing that well-paved roads, paid for by the city, would reduce the cost of freight-handling, thus encouraging new businesses and reducing the tax rate. Reformers added their voices to the chorus in the belief that suburbanization and the improved housing it promised would alleviate the evils of tenement districts. By 1900 the changeover was effected. The centralization of street administration meant that all city dwellers subsidized those who moved to the edges.” (131)

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