I'm kind of sick of skyscrapers personally, unless they're necessary, which they are sometimes. An argument for skyscrapers depends on their being a lack of available real estate that could otherwise be used to build many multi-rise or multi-family buildings, but often that space is taken up by parking lots. Take out the fucking surface parking lots, replace them with 5 story tall, pretty to look at and live in buildings, surround them with cafes and stuff and narrow the roads, then talk to me about skyscrapers. While you're at it, give people incentive to upgrade their single family lots to be more productive, and you might create a vibrant community, which you don't really get with skyscrapers as much.<p>You could build a skyscraper in the middle of my dumb suburban wasteland of the neighborhood I grew up in, but why the hell would I live there when the businesses are all off-the-shelf franchises with giant dusty shitty lots and nobody around to talk to.<p>Hell, build a skyscraper and surround it by the things I mentioned, that's cool too.