High-rise buildings exert a significant influence on natural and human components of the
urban geographic space as the protrusion and titanic existences along urban skylines. In the …

The great housing convulsion that buffeted America between 2000 and 2010 has historical
precedents, from the frontier land boom of the 1790s to the skyscraper craze of the 1920s …

We document that skyscraper growth since the end of the 19 th century has been driven by a
reduction in the cost of height, increasing urbanization, and rising incomes. These stylized …

Despite unprecedented vertical growth in large cities, the economics of skyscrapers remain
understudied. We combine data on tall buildings with a panel of land prices covering 140 …

Tall commercial buildings dominate city skylines. Nevertheless, despite decades of research
on commercial real estate and horizontal patterns of urban development, vertical patterns …

This paper explores the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building
heights. Stringency is substantial when regulated heights are far below free-market heights …

Modern central business districts are characterized by high-rise office buildings, but their
presence cannot be explained by standard urban economic models only. We aim to explore …

This paper investigates the determinants of skyscraper height. First a simple model is
provided where potential developers desire not only profits but also social status. In …

Rapid urbanization has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide. While most
previous studies focused on two-dimensional urban development, the spatial characteristics …

Using new data on market‐based transactions we construct real estate price indexes for
Manhattan between 1920 and 1939. During the 1920s prices reached their highest level in …