In Defense of Skyscrapers

 

 

"The Tall building is an excellent response to the twin crises of global population growth and environmental degradation-- the way to both save the land and provide for the enormous numbers of new people on the Earth is in densely concentrated cities ....continue." ---Washington Post, September 22, 2001.   

 

 

 

"To say that tall buildings generate urban pathologies is socially and historically myopic. Urban culture has been presumed (for better or worse) to generate pathologies of one sort or another since long before the advent of the skyscaper....continue" - David Smiley