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Establishing global city status – the world’s tallest building

In: Creating Cities/Building Cities

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Building the world’s tallest (for a few years) building has been a popular way for cities to gain international status. For Chicago the Sears Tower was a natural outgrowth of the city’s place in the structural development of the skyscraper since the 1880s and of the memory of Frank Lloyd Wright’s notion of the “Mile High Building.†For others, having the world’s tallest building said to the world “Look at us!†Or it established the city as a significant location in the world of corporate centers. This latter approach has been taken by several cities in Asia or the Middle East that previously lacked status or recognition throughout the world economy and its major actors and had to adopt the strategy of “catch-up.â€

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  • ., 2017. "Establishing global city status – the world’s tallest building," Chapters, in: Creating Cities/Building Cities, chapter 4, pages 60-77, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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