The assumption that our living environment influences our behavior and thus our democratic disposition is immediately plausible and widely accepted in professional circles. Alexander Mitscherlich formulated it in his occasionally frighteningly current polemic about the inhospitableness of our cities in 1965 as follows: “If you pen the employees behind the uniformed glass facades of the skyscrapers and then also into the uniform monotony of the apartment blocks, you have created a state that makes any planning for democratic freedom illusory. Because it is no longer experienced anywhere.” Instead, he demands in the design of the cities the “boldness of the attempt” and “imagination in the design of group relationships” (cf. Mitscherlich 1965, 41).