Cities used to sprawl. Now they’re growing taller
Large-scale high-rise development is becoming the norm across the world
THERE IS A special thrill to landing in a new city. The view you get before the plane touches down reveals a lot about a place. You can tell whether locals live packed together in tall towers or spread out in low buildings. You can gauge whether there is a dense centre or a sparse urban sprawl. A new study reveals that low-rise cityscapes may, one day, be a thing of the past. Increasingly, cities are growing upwards rather than outwards.
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