We are people who have been living in mass housing in Nagoya. It was almost unthinkable, almost unimaginable to us that our ordinary necessities could be put into a building in such a direct way. Therefore we are upset, because it is so beautiful, the possibility of real life, such a freedom, for our children, is almost too much to bear!

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• Families in the Chikusadai (Nagoya) project openly wept when asked to draw their ideal apartment layouts on paper.finding0.782
  Shows the deep emotional response to being allowed to design one's own living space.
• Nagoya survey: families overwhelmingly preferred low-rise housing and considered it to have more lifefinding0.781
  Survey result from 100 families in Japan, showing perceived greater life in low-rise, high-density housing vs high-rise.
• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.747
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.743
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• The lack of unfolding in the Japanese building complex's ground floor and inclined planes shows that they simply appeared from a whim, not from sensible adaptation.claim0.742
  Japanese building critique.
• Places have the capacity to deny us permission to be ourselves; even in our own apartments, we may not be able to attain the blissful state without the right adapted geometry.claim0.734
  A stronger assertion about the power of physical environment over psychological state.
• Each house must be different to give each family its dignity; identical mass-produced houses violate the individual life and dreams that underpin the living processclaim0.728
  The socially normative claim Alexander and the families made against Hernan Alesia's standardization demand.
• Modern forms of high-density housing have unnecessarily gone in a direction which is inhumane, inefficient, expensive, and unpleasant.claim0.725
  Critical diagnosis of the status quo.