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What Goes Up, China Edition

Nov 22, 2012 with 0 Comments

Skyscrapers inspire. Sometimes they inspire shudders. I am an admirer of such neo-Babels, and you can’t find a better Schelling point for New York than the Empire State Building. Civilization’s highest erections symbolize something good about humanity. And yet, I wonder about the latest Chinese engineering effort, Sky City, to






The High Rise Before the Fall

Sep 7, 2011 with 5 Comments

Many Americans who have never driven in ol’ London town have driven over the London Bridge — in Arizona. I’m an outlier, here, in that I’ve been over many a London bridge, but not to Lake Havasu’s. But that doesn’t make me an expert on the Shard London Bridge, a






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