Asking the right questions

One module that i did in university, think it was world religions once highlighted that the different religions exist because they ask different questions.

I tried googling the parable and the closest i could find is the buddhist interpretation about suffering and the arrow. Anyhow, here i am exploring it in terms of architecture.

Safdie, Moshe, the canadian architect that build our iconic marina bay sands, for his masters' thesis explored the concept of " A Case for City living, a Case for 3-dimensional Modular Building System". High density apartment.

A 5min talk by Moshe Safdie about his work.

Official website: http://www.habitat67.com/
Description of Habitat 67 composition: http://www.msafdie.com/file/613.pdf

The building that shot him to fame was Habitat 67, a 354 unit housing complex comprising of 1-4 bedroom units with roof gardens and a modular kitchen.
Question here is city living?  Some ideas that float would be what is the image of the city, and the materials use to represent that. Some associate that with affordable living for middle income? Low income? A key aspect is technology of the times vs the cost necessary for it.