This response has (almost) nothing to do with nationalism.
Big buildings are built in New York City because we are a city with lots and lots of people but very little space. So many years ago someone had the bright idea to start building tall in order to fit as much as possible onto the skinny isle of Manhattan.
No other city (to my knowledge) has the same space constraints as NYC, therefore their construction of large buildings is completely unnecessary. I once read in a textbook at school that other cities do this to show their prosperity. I find this pretentious and annoying. But returning to your actual comment here, I point out that the tallest building in the world is in Malaysia. So this drivel you speak of was quite obviously wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Date: 2002-12-19 09:53 am (UTC)Big buildings are built in New York City because we are a city with lots and lots of people but very little space. So many years ago someone had the bright idea to start building tall in order to fit as much as possible onto the skinny isle of Manhattan.
No other city (to my knowledge) has the same space constraints as NYC, therefore their construction of large buildings is completely unnecessary. I once read in a textbook at school that other cities do this to show their prosperity. I find this pretentious and annoying. But returning to your actual comment here, I point out that the tallest building in the world is in Malaysia. So this drivel you speak of was quite obviously wrong, wrong, wrong.