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Joseph Pennell and the Anglo-American Construction of New York

Tate Papers, 2017
American printmaker Joseph Pennell’s iconic New York imagery is the focus of this article, including an exploration of his efforts to find an appropriate aesthetic language for Manhattan’s unparalleled new skyscrapers in light of his experience as a ...
Margaret J. Schmitz
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Does vertical urban development improve or worsen public health? Evidence from skyscraper concentration across U.S. States

Frontiers in Built Environment
IntroductionThis study investigates how urban form—particularly vertical development measured by state-level skyscraper concentration—relates to age-adjusted lung and bronchus cancer incidence across U.S. states (1999–2022).
Yuval Arbel
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Computing the Skyscraper Invariant

CoRR
to be published partially in the proceedings of the SoCG ...
Marc Fersztand, Jan Jendrysiak
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Making AI Work: A Critical Theory of AI Production

Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 285-296, June 2026.
Rosalie Waelen, Jean‐Philippe Deranty
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In Praise of Monumentality: Vertical Urbanism and the Human Condition

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
The skyscraper has long represented modernity’s ambition, yet its civic and emotional potential remains overlooked. This paper reexamines the skyscraper through Sigfried Giedion’s framework of monumentality, not as spectacle or isolated icon, but as a ...
Wayde Tardif
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Skyscrapers and Business Cycles

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
The skyscraper index, created by economist Andrew Lawrence shows a correlation between the construction of the world’s tallest building and the business cycle. Is this just a coincidence, or perhaps do skyscrapers cause business cycles? A theoretical foundation of “Cantillon effects” for the skyscraper index is provided here showing how the basic ...
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Skyscraper: Fast Hashing on Big Primes

Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Arithmetic hash functions defined over prime fields have been actively developed and used in verifiable computation (VC) protocols. Among those, ellipticcurve- based SNARKs require large (256-bit and higher) primes. Such hash functions are notably slow,
Clémence Bouvier, Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovich, Katharina Koschatko, Christian Rechberger, Fabian Schmid, Markus Schofnegger   +6 more
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The Impact of Urban Verticality on Gendered Patterns of Melanoma Incidence Across U.S. States

Urban Science
Melanoma is a major public health concern with significant regional variation across the United States. While prior research links urban form to health outcomes, the role of vertical urban development remains underexplored.
Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner   +3 more
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Urban built environment and melanoma incidence: an ecological study of disparities across U.S. populations

Frontiers in Built Environment
IntroductionMelanoma incidence varies substantially across racial and ethnic populations in the United States, yet the role of urban built-environment characteristics in shaping these disparities remains poorly understood.
Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner, Miryam Kerner   +4 more
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Developing the Tall Buildings of Tomorrow

Buildings
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in tall buildings’ development provides transformative opportunities for facing population growth pressures and sustainability challenges in cities.
Samaa Emad, Mohsen Aboulnaga, Ayman Wanas, Ahmed Abouaiana   +3 more
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