The Life We Longed For

Examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of ""high speed economic growth"" (1955-1972) to house aspiring middle-class families. Due to their modern designs and the well-documented lifestyles of their inhabitants, the danchi quickly entered the social imagination as a ""life to long for"" and helped to redefine the parameters of middle-class aspirations.