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| The Shard, London |
"It may have started with the Tower of Babel, but over the past 140 years, there appears to be an unhealthy correlation between building the world’s next tallest building and an impending financial crisis: New York 1930, Chicago 1974, Kuala Lumpur 1997 and Dubai 2010. The world’s tallest structures rarely stand alone, with skyscraper building booms coinciding with economic corrections.
Over the next six years, China will complete 40% of all the new skyscrapers under construction, expanding the number of skyscrapers in Chinese cities by over 50%..."
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