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Are skyscrapers right for every city?

This Australian article from 2017 foreshadows some of the thinking we are doing now. It talked about how “big apartment blocks are shooting up across Australian central business districts (CBDs), forever altering the shape of once modest skylines. Lean, spectacular and even futuristic, they may seem better fit for soaring Asian capitals like Shanghai or Hong Kong” Read the article here: https://bluenotes.anz.com/posts/2017/11/LONGREAD-are-skyscrapers-right-for-every-city