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The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis [PDF]
Journal of Urban Economics, 2020 This paper provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge on the economics of skyscrapers. First, we document how vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of optimal building heights in a competitive market to rationalize this trend.
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Jason Barr
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"A comparative analytical study of the evolution of the construction of tower buildings according to the different technology of the era" [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2023 Egypt is now witnessing a wide architectural and urban renaissance. Starting a new century with a new republic full of developments in the construction and architecture field and a new capital full of skyscrapers that is been classified as one of the ...
Lameess Abdulqadir
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Living and Working in Tall Buildings: Satisfaction and Perceived Benefits and Concerns of Occupants
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 In the past few decades, tall buildings of 30 to over 100 storeys are becoming more common in modern cities around the world, especially in Asia and the Middle East, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Cheuk Fan Ng
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Budownictwo i Architektura, 2023 The latest construction technologies have enabled the erection of very slender skyscrapers. This phenomenon is developing significantly in New York, but very slender high-rise buildings are also being designed on other continents.
Robert Musiał
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Building on the Border: Architecture as a Meeting Place [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2021 To establish a border signifies defining a fixed point from which to start and to which to refer in order to circumscribe controlled and measured environments.
Francesco Del Sole
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Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022 Contemporary atypical skyscrapers in United Arab Emirates became the landmarks of the city and secured the urban competitiveness via innovative building design. These contemporary skyscrapers use non-linear geometry of structural frames, it is impossible
Chuloh Jung, Riyad Awad, Jihad Awad
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Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2015 In a race for the sky marked by the proliferation of skyscrapers in cities of emerging market economies, the historic European metropolises are faced with intense debates on the relevance and significance of the return of towers.
Manuel Appert, Christian Montes
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Tall trends: quantifying the skyscraper phenomenon
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 The world continues to witness an explosion of growth in the number of 200-plus-meter skyscrapers, with three straight years of record-breaking completions (from 2014 to 2016) and a 441 percent increase on the total number of such towers in the 21st ...
Gabel Jason
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The Soviet Skyscraper: Take-Off and Landing [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2019 Reviewing a number of radical designs for skyscrapers by Russian Constructivist architects operating in the 1920s, the paper researches how the notion of weightlessness can be identified as a common denominator to many of these projects, how this ...
François Blanciak
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Burning Lessons: The Failure to Learn From Major Fire Incidents
Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Major fire disasters continue to cause substantial loss of life, economic damage, and social disruption worldwide. Although investigations occur in most countries, lessons learned are often fragmented, published in incompatible formats, or not published at all.
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