A room with a car

Luxury dwellings are being built in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg - much of whose population has a low standard of living - which for security reasons have parking spaces on the upper floors. De Standaard newspaper comments: "Why don't people who are so afraid of their surroundings that they don't even want to walk from their cars to the front door just move to another neighbourhood? Rich people need an audience, they need looks of admiration and envy. They feel especially secure when they know that wolves are prowling outside their 'gated community'. ... The elevators for the luxury cars can lift almost five tons, meaning the armoured limousines can also come upstairs. But what happens when the lift is busy, or worse still, broken down? The inhabitants will be forced to take the stairs, and walk (unprotected) among all the beggars and loitering youths to get a cab. All at once they will be humans in the midst of other humans, and in need of trust."

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