Extreme Skyscrapers: Precursors to Recession?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/30/Skyplane_The_Impact_of_High-Rises_on_City_Life__Cul...

Philip Goad argues that modern skyscrapers are simply "very larger consumer objects" that value excess over practicality and often indicate approaching economic doom. Goad says high-rises like the new Burj Khalifa are a "result of too much money...and too little thinking."

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Luminaries from the world of architecture launch Skyplane - a book which explores the impact of high-rise towers on city life and culture. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Professor Philip Goad is internationally known for his research and is an authority on modern Australian architecture. He has worked extensively as an architect, conservation consultant, and curator.

Goad is an expert on the life and work of Robin Boyd, and has held visiting scholar positions at Columbia University, Bartlett School of Architecture (London) and UCLA (Los Angeles). He is a past editor of Fabrications, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, and is a contributing editor to Architecture Australia. Along with Associate Professor Julie Willis, he is the editor of the proposed Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture.

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[AtheistKharm]

Correlation is not causation. To say every time the biggest tower in the world is announced its a precursor to recession is interesting if true. However the path to causation can't be drawn with out evidence. To be honest I find this bold assertion a bit ludicrous.

[blackiron60]

They have more money than they know what to do with.

[KevinJMacleanMusic]

Buildings like this creative tourism.. which in turn generates revenue so It does bring money to the country in some shape of form .. and it looks wicked innit!

[777teg]

these people are so rich they could burn ALL theyre money and have enough left over to buy the planet's core!

[Ayzahar]

I think it's taken out of context a bit because towards the end he started hinting at what the correlation was, in that the towers create more and more burdening costs to the economies than any kind of benefit. He mentioned land fills, which in of themselves have to be maintained and financed. So there is much more economic correlation there. I think in many ways a tower that just has form and no function is a product of good times and excess money, which usually is the crest of economic wave

[thejumpingarmadillo]

Function follows Form. Simple. Not Form follows Function...

[10100003]

@stealthinator00 English motherf%cker, do you speak it??? lololololooololooloo

[WetPooooopie]

Wow lot sof progress cuz of technology

[stealthinator00]

he an idiot. skyscrapers are their go give more space without taking land. plus skyscrapers are getting safer to life.

do we need to be stuck at the dark ages

[robostairs]

You just described London, luckily its now going through a high rise boom..

[rlee8807]

He almost seems disgruntled as he talks about how skyscrapers are utterly useless. Has he considered that it may be a solution for limited land such as Tokyo or Manhattan Island? If we limited all buildings to 5 stories, cities would be way too spread out that it would make commuting inefficient.