A small apartment building near my house is being renovated and they’ve removed all the windows and doors and covered them with plywood. Presumably there wasn’t a problem with EVERY window, so why take them all out and board them up? I imagine they were intending to replace them, but why take them out as the very first step in the reno?
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It’s actually got a name and it’s called “the broken window effect”. When people notice an unoccupied building it doesn’t take long before some hoon throws a stone through one window. When one window is broken others follow suit and soon there are no window panes left intact. The term “broken window effect” is commonly used nowadays to describe a whole lot of cause and effect situations completely unrelated to windows.
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