Historical landscape was lost. The city transformed drastically at speed after the disaster. They prefer to observe the real city rather than to speculate conceptually. They point out the omnipresence of bipolarization progressed in Kobe. Close space and open space adjoin like a mosaic work.
Close space means that extremely small houses accumulate in high density.
Open space means vacant land where rebuilding was given up for lack of money. Super subdivision of site makes solitary houses smaller, more exclusive and simple. Condominium is also minimized and jampacked. Multiplicity died, homogeneity generates in Kobe. They found interesting examples showing the state of people's mind.