Our favorite characters fly faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings in a single bound, beat the bad guys and stroll away with nary a scratch.
More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet is the dreaded buy-back.
And finally we get to Greenwood -- although you don't know you're in Greenwood right away because there are not a lot of tall buildings around.
If you're in the middle of a city, with tall buildings blocking your view of the sky, that can be a problem.
"Glasgow has a particular problem, with heavy traffic and tall buildings combining to create a polluted city centre, and the government predicts these problems will not be fixed until after 2020, " he said.
They jump over walls, leap tall buildings in a single inhuman bound, and they can even attack a low-flying hang glider!
Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.
To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
There has traditionally been a lot of opposition to more tall buildings cutting out the famous views of St Paul's Cathedral.
There, mudslides and raging rivers swept away shantytowns perched on steep slopes of the lush Avila mountain and left tall buildings marooned in a sea of rock-hard debris.
For example, when I lived in Jakarta as a young boy, I can remember the buildings being no more than a few stories tall.
One of Brent's top picks is WSP Group, a design consultant firm that specializes in tall buildings.
The White House apologised after a presidential jet accompanied by a fighter aircraft flew low and close to tall buildings, causing consternation in lower Manhattan , with some workers fleeing their offices.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.
This time, he has an addition to his stable: a flying craft, with two enclosed rotors underneath, which allow it to dink around tall buildings and, presumably, to chop vegetables in the event that Alfred wants to make a pot-au-feu.
You have two tall buildings, where one's a hotel and one's an apartment building.
Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.
The city was filled with buildings that were no more than a few stories tall.
They endorse rezoning for increased density permitting, in particular, a cluster of five to six buildings, 700 to 900 feet tall (the Chrysler Building is 1, 046 feet), west of Grand Central around Vanderbilt Avenue, with slightly smaller towers marching up Park.
It seems to me quite strange that we haven't wished for tall buildings for some time but it is one of the signifiers of a really terrific city.
How about the city government designates a set of aesthetically valuable historic buildings and then lets the rest of the land be filled with tall modern structures to meet the demand for space?
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As is well known to participants in the sport of Base Jumping (a mind-bogglingly dangerous activity that involves parachuting from static objects), parachutes have problems when launched from tall buildings.
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