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Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
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The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 is a notion in urban planning which stated that the greatest challenge of further urban development was a difficulty of removing horse manure from the streets, and more broadly an analogy for supposedly-insuperable problems being rendered moot by the introduction of new technologies. The supposed problem of excessive horse-manure collecting in the streets was solved by the proliferation of cars which replaced horses as the means of transportation in big cities. The term Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 is often used to denote a problem which seems to be impossible to solve because it is being looked at from the wrong direction. Hoax The story goes that by the mid-1890s the horse manure problem was gradually piling up, and was becoming unsolvable in the biggest cities, such as London and New York, were suffering the most from it. |
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