Posted Sep 9, 2008, 12:06 AM
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The first skyscraper
Elworth: The world's first skyscraper, the Eiffel Tower, is in Paris. Paris also has many, many tall buildings, concentrated in the Northwestern part of the city known as La Defense', as well as around the belt route that surrounds the city. London, too, although not as many as Paris, has a fair share of tall buildings, but they are in the Eastend, like the Canada Tower.
Both cities, much to their credit, chose to maintain the character of their inner-city cores. London's history goes back 2,000 years. Paris over a 1,000 years, so there was/is a lot of character to preserve. Both cities also still have a great deal of room to expand in all directions.
SLC does have an inner city core, but tall buildings (at least at the time, they were considered tall) have been part of that core. SLC also does not have the room to expand, hemmed in by the mountains and the Lake. So, like Manhattan in a way, it makes sense for SLC to build up--up is part of the character. and its the only space left in which to expand.
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