Moving on up: The inexorable rise of skyscapers in Asia and the Middle East requires ingenious ways of moving their inhabitants around

摘要

We're in a golden age of skyscrapers. Not since the 1920s - the era of the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings - have so many tall towers been built, although their homeland has shifted Eastward, from the megacities of the US to the oil-funded futuristic fantasias of the Middle East and the burgeoning metropolises of East Asia.