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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
I'm not quite following - is it that the 1960s-2000s zoning bylaws São Paulo effectively encouraged the construction of skinny towers then?
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Not sure whether those laws encouraged the construction of narrow towers. I just meant they were not result of lax zoning laws as this period had very strict (and bad) ones.
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Originally Posted by CaliNative
Chicago has some very skinny towers too, especially from the 1920s. One of them is over 40 floors tall and the upper floors seem barely 40 feet across, if that much. Not sure, is that the Opera Building?
On thing about Sao Paulo considering the massive number of tall and mid sized high rises and the vast size of downtown, why are there no buildings above 50 floors? There may not even be one above 40. Is there some kind of zoning restriction? Mexico City is a similar sized Latin American metropolis, and has quite a few buildings above 40 stories, and some over 50. Much smaller Santiago has a supertall now. Recife is much smaller, but seems to have more 40+ towers.
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The horrible zoning laws we were talking about. To build a very tall building, it would take the demolition of several blocks which would make the whole thing not viable. São Paulo is by far the largest economy of the entire Latin America, so it would have a lot of potential.