Abstract
Infrastructures supporting life in cities enable the elderly and their children to stay intimate without propinquity. However, when old parents need nursing care, formerly compressed space becomes significant as they become dependent on proximity. Children who are expected to support their parents become partly bound by spatiality. They try to deal with the situation by seeking to be spatially unbound even as they are spatially bound. This contradiction involving spatiality suggests that the independence from proximity does not originate in some aspect of the city itself but is realized through the ability of the individual to overcome space and to search for better solution within the available choices.
