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I had an errand today in Yokohama's newish business district. It is made up of gigantic buildings,as tall as they are wide: you walk for ten minutes in their shadow, shivering in the winter cold, then, turn a corner and walk ten minutes in brightest sunshine, boiling. Repeat. 
What's worse, to fill these behemoths with dutiful office laborers you need huge tracts of surrounding suburbs: enforcing compulsive commuting and one-use towns that are empty and silent for 12-16 hrs per day. Cities built to the grid and the machine rather than the human scale.
It is impossible to walk on the sunny side of the street here, and it is impossible to live and raise a family in the suburbs, housewives and older children bored out of their minds, workers stressed to the point of suicide.
