IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen on ‘Why cities need ‘tall buildings’?

IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Economics Professor Jason Barr in Dezeen asking ‘Why cities need ‘tall buildings’?

Economics Professor Jason Barr writes in Dezeen:

‘Since the birth of the skyscraper at the end of the 19th century, critics have argued that the tall building takes more from society than it gives in return’….

‘Yet height limits eventually fell by the wayside as cities realised they caused more harm than good by restricting the construction of needed buildings.’

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