Only thorough research could discern that residents of high-rise buildings are more likely to be victims of crime, because stacked tenants make for poor monitors of the surrounding streets.

只有通过研究可得出，高楼大厦中的居民更有可能成为犯罪活动的受害者，因为高处的住户更易成为周边街道穷困监视者攻击的对象。

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When I got back from prison, I wrote somewhere that in a cell of twenty-four people you can probably encounter more real stories than in a high-rise development housing several thousand.

当我从监狱里被释放回来之后，我在某篇文章里面写到，在一个关了二十四个人的牢房里面，你大概能听到比在一个住了几千人的高层住宅楼里面所能听到的更多的真实故事。

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ECO CITY will use wind energy to generate 10% of the complex's power (more than any other high-rise in the world), as well as solar water heating systems and solar-powered lighting technology.

ECO CITY将利用风能产生所使用复合能源的10%(这个值要大于世界上其他任何高层建筑)，同时它还将采用太阳能热水系统以及太阳能照明技术。

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In particular, the city has expanded to the north, where more affordable modern high-rise apartment complexes have emerged, complete with gyms and swimming pools.

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New land policy is reducing the amount of available parcels for single-family development in the region and pushing developers to build more-dense high-rise projects on remaining land, he said.

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Bruce Hiatt, a luxury-condo broker in Las Vegas, says he is seeing more interest in high-rise condo properties near City Center from investors and second-home buyers in the past few months.

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