Known to be a vertical city with the highest number of skyscrapers in any city around the world, Hong Kong has been building hyper-dense “new towns”, ever since the 1950s, to solve housing shortage, cost of land and to accommodate its ever-rising population. These new overwhelming and ...
Their thousands of responses gave us a unique insight into the reality of living in the world’s greatest cities right now. Now that international travel is forecast to bounce back to the highest levels since 2019, many travellers will be planning a city break this year – so in 2024, we...
On the other side, skyscrapers such as the Oriental Pearl Tower, and the Maglev train shows its promising present and future.The number of museums in Shanghai is second only to Beijing. Students may learn the history of China at Shanghai Museum, and have fun at the Science and Technology ...
Osaka is no exception - here you can find impressive skyscrapers, functional structures, and ultramodern high-end buildings. The highest skyscraper in the city and the whole of Japan is Abeno Harukas with a height of 300 meters. Shortly after its construction in 2014, in the year 2017, it ...
Tallest of the GiantsOf the 55 cities with built skyscrapers at least 150 meters high, only 7 rise at least 300 meters. New York (No. 1 overall) has the most at 16, over double the number in Chicago (No. 2) with 7. The other 5 cities have 2 at most....
skyscrapers.Each building would be three kilometers high.In this skyscraper city about 250 000 people would live.They would work and spend their free time in it.They would not need to leave the city unless they wanted to.They would be about to move about in the city by a transport ...
Seoul has a remarkable cityscape of ancient World Heritage-listed architecture and sparkling skyscrapers, an innovative tech-obsessed culture, amazing cuisine and fabulous street food (hello Korean BBQ), bustling markets, energetic nightlife and kooky K-Pop culture (Op, op, op, op). Did you know...
You can go ice-skating throughout winter surrounded by skyscrapers at Bryant Park (free with your own skates); under the tree at Rockefeller Center; or in Central Park with iconic views of Midtown Manhattan. Of course, the shopping is second to none, including an enormous outdoor holiday mar...
the best skyline in the world, impressive aerial views, most vertical city in the world, huge residential skyscrapers but with smallest apartments in the world (average 40-50 sqm). Extensive public housing programme since 1954 helped the city to develop and now is home for half of population...
Depending on their construction, city structures like bridges and skyscrapers may be vulnerable to natural or human-made disasters, as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City demonstrated. In the first half of the twentieth century, air pollution in the US increased steadily as...