Why Build Higher?

Get your $50 discount for Video Blocks at: http://videoblocks.com/RealEngineering_1116 This one took me a little while longer because of its length. Thanks for your patience. Let me know what you think! Check out Wendover Productions video about Urban Geography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSxPzafO_k Thank you to my patreon supporters: Adam Flohr, darth patron, Zoltan Gramantik, Josh Levent, Henning Basma, Karl Andersson, Mark Govea Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2825050&ty=h Facebook: http://facebook.com/realengineering1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianjamesmcmanus Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fiosracht A large portion of this video was inspired by this article by Edward Glaeser: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/how-skyscrapers-can-save-the-city/308387/ Big thank you to Kian Yap for allowing me to use his drone footage of the Taipei 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Przm30JN9TE To get a more human look at this problem, check out the Vice News documentary on the gentrification of London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82tgwk1IWIE Once again thank you to Maeson for his amazing music. I used 5 of his songs in this video. "Hi", "The Catch", "Winter", "Noir" and "Time". Check out his soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/maeson-1/tracks This video is sponsored by VideoBlocks