During the 1960s and 1970s, when New York City's "South Bronx" was the paradigm for urban decay, it was discovered that if broken-out windows were filled in with plywood, and crude pictures of flowerpots and window boxes were painted on the plywood, there would be less vandalism and arson involving the buildings that had been "repaired" that way. Just the symbolic representation of the buildings being cared for made people care for them.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-03-31 08:02 am (UTC)That illustration of the shining glass city looks a lot like the view of the West Side of Manhattan from New Jersey, if it had been designed in the Land of Oz.