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Many people feel that we are living in a
city with less closer and less friendly neighbors than before. There can be
numerous reasons for this, like increasing nuclear-family percentage and harsh
working conditions due to the continuing regression. However, I would like to
address this issue by using the term ‘space’, that is, our relationship with
neighbors is dependent on the space that we are living.
In last days, we are living in the houses not
the apartments. While apartments only have entrances and elevators, the houses
we ensured were composed of gates, roads, common spaces and junctions. The difference
between the two types of accommodations is rightly ‘the space’ that can be
shared. We used to meet our neighbors on the gates that is located right after
my house, we used to commute together to the bus stops when we met our
neighbors in the roads and junctions that connect many houses, and we used to
talk or drink together in the small tables below the tree we shared. As I depicted
above, the shared spaces made our relationship with neighbors. However, due to
the modernization, we had to live in the apartments that can provide citizens the
homes in a very restricted city area.
Then, if we cannot expand our city enough to
supply independent houses for millions of people, we should be focusing on the
space inside the apartment to improve contact between neighbors. The ordinary type
of apartment does not have common spaces that can make a natural contact. Thus,
we should connect the buildings of same apartment complex by linking bridges
that are ‘the roads and junctions of villages’. Adding to that, we should spare
some benches and trees in the middle of apartment complex or apartment building
entrance to make a shared space for living to enhance the contact naturally.
I know that we cannot turn our society back
to the good-old times that we shared a lot of things with our neighbors.
However, by managing spaces in modern apartments, we can grab small but
precious seeds of possibility to recover the connection between the people.
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