The history, engineering, economics, and politics of skyscrapers are fascinating. Jason Barr's new book Cities in the Sky makes them come alive with the personalities and constraints of the people who build and use them.
Skyscrapers are a response to match the supply of valuable urban land with its demand. They perform this function handsomely. Burj Khalifa, the Empire State Building, and 22,789 other skyscrapers make similar offerings to cities around the world. Their glamour, however, hides their utility, giving a false impression that they are projects of hubris, competing to break height records. The book's core subject is urban economics, and it guides the reader to think of floor count and building heights as problems of constrained optimisation, where building heights are a balancing act between costs and revenues to maximise profits, not hubris. It's worth noting that all skyscrapers are ventures of profit that have brought high returns to their investors.
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