This is the land of empty high rises, slow drivers, humidity and boring baseball teams.
Every day, more high rises spring up top house the city's 16 million people.
Vast swaths of hutongs have been bulldozed to make way for high rises.
Red Apple owns at least 300 properties around the U.S., and has recently begun building residential high rises in Brooklyn.
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The states they live in build bridges and roads and high rises.
Urban land shortages and subsequent higher costs, coupled with a general densification trend, means high rises are sprouting rapidly in even the most sprawling of urban landscapes.
Modern glass high rises occasionally demonstrate that Kiev reached the 21st Century, but luckily not often enough to forget that you are in the cradle of Slavic culture.
New Cairo City is a planned community about 30km east of downtown, home to many international universities, luxury high rises and gated communities, as well as shopping malls and golf courses.
The Firemans also have planned to build 2, 200 ultra luxury apartments housed in several high rises slated to sprout along the perimeter of the course within the next decade.
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Le Corbusier's were wrecked by the adoption of high rises for human habitation - something he never envisaged, believing that most people should live in comparatively low-rise apartment buildings.
It was a cold start to the day with the tops of many high rises cloaked in mist as Londoners living in Vauxhall were waking up and preparing to go out.
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Residents slept outside in cars or fled to the suburbs far from the city's high rises as more than 300 aftershocks rattled the area throughout the day, according to state-run media.
Through 2025, around 350 million additional Chinese are expected to move to cities from rural areas and 50, 000 new high rises are expected to come up in the country, according to industry estimates cited by the company.
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Punta del Este, an hour and a half from Montevideo, has condominiums and high rises lining the beaches that reach out into the water, with the Rio de la Plata on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Dubbed Dubai's first "boutique" hotel, in truth it is a little too big and corporate to carry off that label convincingly, but it definitely feels a world away from the usual high-end high rises we have grown used to in Dubai.
Other stops on the tour include the Colaba Police Station on Mandlik Road, where Linbaba was beaten after being arrested with no warning, and the seaside neighbourhood of Cuffe Parade, where the slum that Prabhaker called home sits adjacent to million-dollar high rises.
According to the indictment, Mr. Abu Ghaith appeared with Mr. bin Laden the day after the attacks and said a "great army" was gathering against the U.S. In another statement, he advised Muslims, children and opponents of the U.S. "not to board any aircraft and not to live in high rises, " according to the indictment.
Both hotels are located in modern downtown high-rises and offer upscale steakhouses, spas and club levels.
New York was just a huge city with high-rises and lots of people and noise.
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Instead I found an eight-lane freeway jammed with cars and a skyline studded with blocky high-rises.
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In a city of high-rises and tiny apartments, pigs are found mainly on menus.
To make matters worse, Malaysia has since built scores of thirsty factories and high-rises without sufficient aqua-infrastructure.
"Good architecture has always used water, " says Charles Sieger, a Miami-based architect who specializes in luxury high-rises.
Many of the buildings are high-rises whose skeletons are making Panama City look like an out-of-water coral reef.
The flooding of overflow office districts in low-lying areas like Metairie could raise demand for high-and-dry high-rises downtown.
Without the level, we couldn't engage in precision construction, build things like high-rises or accurately map our world.
Strict regulations have preserved its village-like layout and architectural treasures, and have ensured an almost total absence of high-rises.
From the outset, the couple knew they didn't want to live in one of the city's many new high-rises.
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This was in Cupertino on Mariani Avenue, before Apple had the huge high-rises.
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