Cities without skylines: Worldwide building-height gaps, their ...
2021年2月28日 · This column calculates countries’ ‘building-height gaps’ – the difference between the total height of a country’s stock of tall buildings and what the total height would have been if building height regulations were relatively less stringent, based on parameters from a …
Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their ...
2022年11月1日 · The gaps are driven by under-building in central areas of larger cities. These gaps are not compensated by tall building construction in peripheral areas of cities or less stringent limits on outward expansion beyond the existing boundaries of the cities.
How Skyscrapers Can Save the City
2011年2月9日 · Besides making cities more affordable and architecturally interesting, tall buildings are greener than sprawl, and they foster social capital and creativity. Yet some urban planners and...
Using a novel geospatialized data set on the year of construction and heights of tall buildings around the world, we compare the total height of a country’s actual stock of tall buildings to what the total height would have been if building-height regulations were relatively less stringent, based on parameters from a benchmark set of countries.
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not …
2021年10月27日 · Our recent study, which examined whether building denser and taller is the right path to sustainability, busts this myth: we found that densely built, low-rise environments are more space and...
"Great cities need tall buildings to help them thrive" - Dezeen
2024年5月13日 · When New York City took a different approach in 1916 by regulating building shapes through setback rules, and its skyline mushroomed in the Roaring Twenties, global cities learned a lesson: great...
Why India Keeps Its Cities So Short - Bloomberg
2013年2月14日 · Despite an urban development explosion, the country hasn't developed a taste for skyscrapers and tall building. BANGALORE, India -- Ascend to the top floor of the UB Tower downtown, and you can...
Cities by Number of 150m+ Buildings - The Skyscraper Center
View information on cities around the world using the list below. To see detailed information on a city, click its name to view its city page.
Why ‘the Line’ in Saudi Arabia Is So Fraught - The New York Times
2024年6月11日 · While Saudi Arabia’s decision to build a very tall linear city may seem bizarre, there are clear benefits to stacking buildings atop one another and connecting them with walkways at different...
Tall Buildings – City Advocacy Forum
As we look towards 2030, Anglosphere cities such as Toronto, London, Sydney, and Brisbane are expected to have the largest growth in tall buildings. Use the map below to explore 100m+ buildings and their relationship to 2020 population density worldwide.