In some places, such as China's crowded cities, tall may still make good economic sense.
That is much like flying experimental planes over crowded cities to test their airworthiness.
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The crowded cities of Japan, with their wooden houses and paper walls, burnt with a ferocity never seen before.
To reach Luis and Pepe Banco Azteca employs a fleet of 4, 000 loan officers who hop on motorcycles to crisscross the poorest neighborhoods of Mexico's crowded cities and backwater towns.
But in crowded cities the great outdoors is rapidly becoming an elite destination - rather than a life-sentence to rural poverty - and domestic tourism is taking off along with the consumer lifestyle.
At a point in human history when natural predations should be less of a reason to flee one's home ground--increasingly we have the means to overcome droughts or infestations, and global warming (if true) isn't yet a reason to uproot--millions are heading to crowded cities or across deserts or oceans to reach more promising lands.
This guy has exploded the dull forms that have crowded our cities and had induced us to accept lazy, boring or preciously minimalist constructions in the name of art and economics.
The roads they drive on may be crowded in cities like Beijing, and the roads full of potholes in second and third tier cities, but Chinese consumers are giving up their bikes for cars.
Almost all of that growth will come in the already-crowded and overburdened cities and slums of the developing world.
You can only add so many towers, especially in crowded, data hungry cities like New York and San Francisco.
Over half of the global population lives in cities and many are crowded, dirty and short on parking.
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Look at your mostly full stadiums, your tailgate parties in NFL parking lots every Sunday morning, your crowded sports bars in both NFL and non-NFL cities across America, the revenue generated from Fantasy Football, the wagering that takes place, and the crazy fools that paint their bodies or go shirtless in 10 degree weather.
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Co's Uniqlo have done well in China as younger Chinese veer toward the "fast-fashion" trend, with crowded shops in shopping malls in the country's top cities.
"People tend to avoid Olympic cities the year of the event, thinking it will be too crowded, " Hatch says.
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