Broken Windows

I teach an Urban Ministry course in Baltimore, where one of the exercises that students are asked to complete is to walk the neighborhood around the their church and count the number of broken windows and boarded up buildings. It's always interesting to here of the students' findings as it pertains to the correlation between broken windows/boarded buildings and the quality of life in their communities. This brings to mind Wilson and Kelling's piece on the Broken Window's theory. To read more go to: (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/4465/).