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I have the 20th anniversary edition. It quotes the debunked magazine article directly: "In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others ar

I have the 20th anniversary edition. It quotes the debunked magazine article directly: "In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict.[5]" Citation 5 is an article from the Atlantic from March 1982 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-... Nobody thought to fix that for the 2019 edition?

Jtsummers 5y ago
Fair enough, I apparently didn't look closely enough at that page and focused on "Tip 5" itself, the problem with using a physical book versus something searchable. Still, my primary issue with this review is the selective quoting that made the authors' views seem dogmatic in a way that they weren't. They specifically provide a pragmatic out versus stop-and-fix and rchaves neglected it to make a misleading point.