Financing Central Park by general taxation was controversial and precedent setting. It was justified by rationalizing that increases in property values around the Park would generate sufficient annual revenues to cover all the Park’s capital costs. Accordingly, the Central Park Commissioners provided data as “evidence” to support the success of this vehicle in their annual reports. This article shows these data were flawed. Notwithstanding their egregious inaccuracy, these Central Park data were ubiquitously reiterated in arguments to support urban parks in cities throughout the United States for eighty years from the 1860s until World War II.

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中央公园发展产生的经济数据及其对美国早期城市公园建设的影响的回顾

通过一般税收为中央公园筹资是有争议的，也是先例。通过合理化证明，公园周围物业价值的增长将产生足够的年收入来支付公园所有的资本成本，这是有道理的。因此，中央公园专员在其年度报告中提供了数据作为“证据”，以支持该车辆的成功。本文显示这些数据是有缺陷的。尽管中央公园的数据非常不准确，但从1860年代到第二次世界大战为止的八十年中，这些中央公园的数据在论点上得到了广泛重申。