Compulsory-use projects hide their unpopularity that exhibitory ones expose

Evidence

A World’s Fair was not a bridge that the public had no choice but to pay to use, it was a show to which the public had to be persuaded to purchase tickets. The key to the Fair’s success was, therefore, public relations. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4448

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Encapsulates Caro’s sharpest structural insight — the toll bridge needed no persuasion while the Fair did — explaining why Moses’s coercive model, honed on compulsory infrastructure, self-destructed on a discretionary show.