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What finally solved the Victorian 'great horse manure crisis' that urban planners considered intractable?
The problem wasn't managed but abolished from outside the frame — though the famous Times 'nine feet of manure' quote has never actually been found in The Times.
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The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894, When Cities Calculated They Would Drown in Dung By the 1890s London and New York ran on tens of thousands of horses, each producing over 10 kilograms of manure a day. Urban commentators projected streets buried metres deep within decades; the 1898 international urban planning conference reportedly broke up with no solution. The automobile made the entire problem vanish — a favourite parable with a catch: its most famous quotation cannot be traced.
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