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erty and degradation of a considerable percentage of the urban 

 population. The remedies for this condition are not exclusively 

 in the hands of municipal authorities. They must be worked out 

 with the progress of economic conditions, and the gradual diffusion 

 of realized wealth. 



From the standpoint of the social and political philosopher, as 

 well as of the political economist, it must never be forgotten that 

 the modern city is the creation of those very industrial conditions 

 that have created the whole mass of modern wealth, that have 

 elevated the standards of life, and that are certainly destined in their 

 turn to improve and finally to transform the cities which their own 

 instrumentalities have created. 



