You can auto generate pdf’s for various cities on parameters. So functionality, building status, height, per year (ranges), and so on. It’s a neat tool.
Just got the syllabus for my new class on Urbanism this semester and one of the websites we’re supposed to frequent for class research is YIMBY itself! Mad funny
yet, at the same time, China only has one completed megatall, its second prospective megatall was stopped one meter shy, a third prospective megatall was shortened, and the rest have yet to begin vertical construction. China looked like it would be a dream made reality for megatall tower enthusiasts a few years ago, but it has yet to prove itself.
If the technology existed decades ago, there would be megatalls in the USA. There were plenty of visions - notably Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Illinois. Instead, we built the first operable supertalls. We’re slowly climbing the ladder to build taller and taller. We have more space and our architecture went through the modernist phase which produced the massive, boxy corporate workplaces that are unimpressive but more efficient (in a bad way) compared to the supertalls Chinese companies build in China.
Nothing against China, but as it establishes itself as the primary world economic powerhouse, it should be able to build smarter and subsequently taller - especially given its population density. They are growing at an insane rate, and skyscrapers like Shangai Tower and Chow Tai Fook Guangzhou reflect that.
The Skyscrapers That Will Redefine New York | The B1M
From the luxury super-slender developments of Midtown to Brooklyn’s first super-tall tower, these are the skyscrapers that are about to redefine New York.
Published on Apr 10, 2019
Permitting for demolition for Tower Fifth has been filed. Assuming no near-term recession, I think we’ll see this tower rising sooner rather than later.