Broken Windows in Toronto

critical mass
Originally uploaded by herb i am.

A post in the Planetizen Radar blog feed has a comment related to one of the photos in this stream. It reminds me of a story during the Mayoralty of Marion Barry. There was an abandoned car in the Shaw area. After repeated calls, the resident still couldn't get the car towed away. He finally spray painted "Barry's DC" on it and it was gone within a day.

You have to be strategic in your graffiti.

On the other hand, the company that owns this project hasn't bothered to "fix" this sign, which has been like this for 3-4 months, which is another kind of "qualitative" indicator of the softening of the real estate market.
3rd and L Streets NE, Washington, DC.