PINT of Stella. mate!
Many, many Scotches
No takers? Well I'm off out so the floor's open.
The answer was Roosevelt Island.
The answer was Roosevelt Island.
That will work Good job.Orbital, AC/DC, The Veronicas
For the record here's the top ten using the 100m+ threshold.Which isn't Tokyo, I gather.
Well it has to be one of:
Tokyo
Chicago
NYC
Beijing
Shanghai
Chongqing
HK
Sao Paulo
Mexico City
and possibly Taipei as an outside favourite.
fuck it, I'll say Sao Paulo.
Blackjack and hookers?What was remarkable about how he paid for the building?
No, its not Bender!Blackjack and hookers?
That's pretty awesome for a few reasons.
The idea of the world's biggest city gets debated ad nauseam with cities like Tokyo, Chongqing, Sao Paulo and Mexico City having arguably taken that title out in the past. How to define a city is interesting - is it population, is it urbanisation, is it density and how do you separate cities from suburbia and when two cities are conjoined by suburbia does that make them one city, etc.
What is interesting here is that HK is nowhere near the biggest city in the world yet it has the largest concentration of tall buildings. That is likely driven by two considerations, the confined space with which to build on and the capital available for construction. Then you have demand for real estate, the proximity of the largest national population and densities close by, being surrounded by huuuge economies, being an excellent warm water deep port city, etc. etc.
For a geographer/sociologist/political thinker/etc. this issue is super interesting.
He used his 'EverydayRewards' pointsWoohoo, I guessed Number 1 & 2.
Keeping on skyscrapers:
The Woolworth Building in Manhattan was the World's tallest when built in 1913 by F.W.Woolworth. It cost $13.5m in 1913 dollars (lots).
What was remarkable about how he paid for the building?
Yup. That's what I was told.He paid cash?