History of Extreme City Density thread

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Originally Posted by Crawford

There already is. Sao Paolo has far more highrises than Shanghai.

And NYC and Hong Kong have far more skyscrapers than Shanghai.

But Shanghai might have the biggest concentration both highrises and skyscrapers, in that it's near the top in both measurements.

The thing that NYC has going for it which Shanghai doesn't is that its tall buildings are built wall-to-wall—like, if you took an old European city and extruded everything up. Shanghai simply isn't the same; its tall buildings are more cushioned by open space (relative to Manhattan, anyway).