Might High-Rises Become Uninhabitable?
Steve Mouzon argues that trillions being spent world-wide on skyscrapers could be lost as energy costs rise.
Unaffordable energy costs may render high-rise buildings unusable. Cross-ventilation, daylighting, elevators & thermal mass are all difficult to impossible to achieve as these buildings are currently constructed, so without cheap fossil fuels, these buildings just might become uninhabitable. This article is a follow-up to Richard Florida's Friday night plenary and Léon Krier's Saturday morning plenary at CNU20 in West Palm Beach.
Thanks to Steve Mouzon
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Published on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in
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