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The government also acquiesced in the debt binge of the '80s, when companies borrowed more than $1.5 trillion to finance takeover wars and build skyscrapers, luxury condominiums and vast malls that now stand largely empty. "The 1980s will go down in history as a time when financial capital overwhelmed human...
The Bibliotheque de France, now under construction in Paris, will hold its millions of books in four 20-story glass skyscrapers. (A previous plan would have placed the volumes in a series of silos in the countryside.) The new library's restrictive policy will make books virtually inaccessible to the...
Kuwait is burning -- physically, politically and spiritually. Kuwait City, where 80% of the prewar population of 2 million lived, is a sad, lonely town. The skyscrapers are abandoned, their ground-level shops have been looted, and nearly everything is covered with an oily soot, a reminder of the ongoing conflagration...
A few markets, such as Houston, got overbuilt so many years ago that demand is finally catching up with supply. An 18-story office building owned by Exxon's real estate subsidiary is rising from the ashes of the city's north side -- the first major new commercial structure in...
Our cities, Sennett argues, obliterate value instead of creating it. Beguilingly democratic, they neutralize unequal and unpredictable landscapes with grid patterns that provide useful chessboards for economic competition. The standardizing grids expand not just outwards, but upwards, in skyscrapers whose sixth floors and 60th floors are identical, as well as...