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by zamfi 1230 days ago
This is a very interesting story, but I feel like I'm missing something -- any chance you could dig up a reference to this for us?

Housing projects and private high rises seem like they would have similar problems...I'm not finding this easily, but confess I have no academic background in management!
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readthenotes1 1226 days ago
It was, if I recall correctly, discussed in the book called _The Fifth Discipline_ by Senge.

The entire book is about systems and how we typically ignore them to our disadvantage.

There is some overlap between this and Weinberg's Quality books.

And, of course, _Systematics_ explains it all clearly.

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AlbertCory 1230 days ago
> any chance you could dig up a reference to this for us?

you could search for Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago (torn down) or Pruitt-Igoe towers in St. Louis (torn down), for starters. Or the Cabrini–Green Homes in Chicago.

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zamfi 1230 days ago
Ah, thanks, yes I'm familiar with the legacies of torn-down public housing projects.

It was the private ones and the implied comparison that I was after -- but now that I'm re-reading the parent post maybe there was no comparison, just a long sentence describing public housing projects as torn-down neighborhoods with high-rises...

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