Skyscrapers: How Tall Is Too Tall?
9 October 2001 - 7:00am
Will the skyscraper be the first casualty of the "first war of the 21st century?"
"[C]ities have raced for decades to erect the world?s tallest skyscrapers [that have] served as powerful totems, shouting out economic arrival...But when two passenger planes smashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, that equation was forever altered. Skyscrapers were suddenly transformed into fragile deathtraps...Giant skyscrapers may turn out to be among the first casualties of the first war of the 21st century...Skyscrapers have always been more about ego than economics."
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Newsweek, October 8, 2001
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