Do Skyscrapers Have A Future?

Experts ranging from Jane Jacobs to William Pedersen weigh in on tall buildings in the next millennium.

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February 26, 2002, 5:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"A real, and potentially historic, threat is that fear will snuff out the first glimmerings of a new vision of skyscrapers incomprehensibly tall and massive, yet 'green'self-sustaining structures sheathed in solar cells, run through with wind turbines, recycling their water, and dispersing natural light with elaborate mirror arrays. The biggest dreamers are looking amazingly far through the fog of fear."

Thanks to Chris Clair

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