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CHAPTER 6 <br /> P-2 Continue cooperative maintenance and clean-up efforts. <br /> We used the image of broken windows to <br /> explain how neighborhoods might decay into George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, in their book Fixing Broken <br /> disorder and even crime if no one attends Windows, argue convincingly that maintaining a clean, well-cared-for <br /> faithfully to their maintenance. If a factory or physical environment can be an effective crime reduction strategy. Their <br /> office window is broken, passersby observing point is that criminals are less likely to frequent a place that is well cared <br /> it will conclude that no one cares or no one is for and clearly has a cohesive order. Painting out graffiti, cleaning up <br /> in charge. In time, a few will begin throwing garbage, maintaining building facades, and similar measures can help to <br /> rocks to break more windows. Soon all the <br /> windows will be broken, and now passersby reduce crime, increase civility, and add to residents', workers', and <br /> will think that, not only is no one in charge of visitors' sense of personal safety. <br /> the building, no one is in charge of the street <br /> on which it faces. Only the young, the The Downtown Everett Association and BIA might be logical initiators of <br /> criminal, or the foolhardy have any business cooperative maintenance, litter removal, and anti-graffiti campaigns. The <br /> on an unprotected avenue, and so more and amount of effort can be geared to the extent of the problem at a given <br /> more citizens will abandon the street to those time. However, as other communities have learned, civic maintenance is <br /> they assume prowl it. Small disorders lead like dental hygiene—consistent preventative care is better than trying to <br /> to larger and larger ones, and perhaps even correct a problem. Additionally, the City might consider extending its <br /> to crime. . . . <br /> minimum maintenance ordinance, which requires the repair of unsafe <br /> In a report prepared for the President's buildings, to cover unsightly facades in need of repair, cleaning, or <br /> Commission on Law Enforcement and Crime painting. <br /> in 1967, Alobert Biderman and his social <br /> science colleagues presented an important <br /> finding from surveys of citizens: feer of crime <br /> • <br /> was strongly related to the existence of <br /> disorderly conditions in neighborhoods and <br /> communities. <br /> George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles: <br /> Fixing Broken Windows <br /> ,.r <br /> CTs <br /> 98 MAKERS architecture and urban design <br /> O5O9 rpl dran.doc•6/29/06 <br />